Elaine Stott

Elaine Stott is the CEO of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada’s largest independent, not-for-profit publisher of scientific research journals; publishing 22 peer-reviewed journals covering the natural and physical sciences and engineering. She moved to CSP, and Canada in September 2021, and here she is a champion of mission-driven research publishing. She is a passionate supporter of open science and open-access research publishing, and she believes publishers need to collaborate with others involved in the research workflow to find long-term sustainable solutions.

Previously she has held senior management roles at Taylor and Francis, Cambridge University Press and Wiley where she was responsible for large science and medical publishing programs including open access, subscription journals, and books. She has also worked at Thomas Telford, CABI and Chapman and Hall.