Michiel Kolman

Michiel Kolman is currently President of the International Publishers Association. He is also Senior Vice President at Elsevier for Information Industry Relations.

For the last ten years he headed up a global team dedicated to academic relations who are engaging in a dialogue with key stakeholders in the academic community: academies of science, research councils and university leaders. He will continue to engage with research leaders worldwide in his capacity as Academic Ambassador Emeritus. 

He joined Elsevier in 1995 and has been in various core publishing positions, including Publishing Director, based in Amsterdam and Tokyo. He launched one of the first on-line journals in the industry in 1996: New Astronomy. Michiel was Managing Director of the Elsevier office in Frankfurt, Germany, for four years during which the much coveted Beilstein Database was acquired by Elsevier. Prior to Elsevier he worked for Wolters Kluwer in the academic publishing division now part of Springer Nature. 

He holds an undergraduate degree from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a PhD in astrophysics from Columbia University in New York where he studied with a Fulbright scholarship.

Michiel launched the LGBTI chapter at Elsevier, Elsevier Pride, which he now supports as executive sponsor. He was also two years in a row in the Financial Times Top100 ranking of most influential LGBTI senior executives.