Maurits van de Graaf

Maurits van der Graaf started Pleiade Management and Consultancy in 2000, focusing on archives, libraries and publishers. Its activities include market research and evaluation, and strategic studies. Recent assignments include a study on the usage of E-books, a study on the quality of research data and an action programme on research data for the 4 countries participating Knowledge Exchange (see http://www.pleiade.nl). Before Pleiade he held various jobs at publishers and libraries, including Product Manager Excerpta Medica database (Elsevier), Director of the Dutch Current Research Agency (NBOI) and Deputy-Director of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI). He studied Biology at the University of Utrecht.