Paul Banziger

Paul Bänziger is the Head of Outreach and Partnerships APAC within the Open Research Group at Springer Nature. He coordinates the approach to partners – institutions, organizations, charities, foundations and funders – and enables Springer Nature to engage with these partners about the whole portfolio of open research products and services. Important areas of focus are Open Access policy and funding, Open Access Books and Open Data. As a Publisher, he is also responsible for the publishing development of the Nature Partner Journals (NPJs) in Japan, Korea and Singapore.
In 2014, after completing the one-year EU Executive Training Program (ETP) in Japan he joined Nature Publishing Group, now part of Springer Nature, in Tokyo. He brings 12,5 years of experience managing and developing print and online portfolios of reference works, books and journals at Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting in The Netherlands. Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, he spent four years working as a tax lawyer at Deloitte and Loyens & Loeff in Amsterdam. Paul holds a Master’s degree in Tax Law (LLM) from Maastricht University.