Gert-Jan Geraeds

In April 2017 Gert-Jan Geraeds was appointed General Manager of KeAi, the Beijing based international Open Access journals publisher. Gert-Jan started his career in STM publishing in 2002 as Publishing Editor at Kluwer Academic Publishers in The Netherlands, now SpringerNature. From 2005 to 2007 he was based at Springer’s New York office as Publisher Geosciences. After a short stint in legal publishing he started as Business Development Manager Scopus for Elsevier in Amsterdam, late 2007, followed by positions as Executive Publisher and Publishing Director for Elsevier’s Environmental Sciences journals portfolio. Prior to his career in STM publishing, Gert-Jan worked as Attorney at Law for a global law firm, focusing on corporate law and international labour law. He has served on various charitable and educational boards, including Hofdijck Elementary School in The Netherlands and the Western Academy of Beijing.   Gert-Jan holds an LL.M. degree from Leiden University. He lives in Beijing with his wife, son and daughter.