Nick Fowler

Dr. Nick Fowler is Elsevier’s Chief Academic Officer. He leads Elsevier’s Research Networks group which liaises and collaborates with senior leaders of the world’s leading universities and research policy-makers globally, and which determines Elsevier’s strategy and policies on Open Access, Open Science, and Open Data.

Nick has been an STM Board member since 2016. He also served on Council of the UK Publishers Association for six years from 2010-2016, including as President in 2012-13.

Nick joined Elsevier in 2003 and was its Director of Strategy from 2005-2012 and Managing Director of Research Management from 2012-2016. Before that, he was an Engagement Manager at the strategy management consultancy McKinsey & Company based in Stamford, Connecticut where he worked with leading global companies in high technology and media sectors. He achieved his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University in 1998, a Masters in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago as a Fulbright Scholar in 1990, and a BA in Geography from Oxford University in 1989.

Nick is originally from the UK and currently lives with his wife in London.