Nobuko Miyairi

Nobuko Miyairi is a freelance consultant/analyst, based in Tokyo, Japan. She provides strategic consulting for new business development and start-up in STM publishing and scholarly communications. Her service caters to a wide range of needs from academic societies, research institutions, publishers and solution vendors. She also serves as Affiliate Fellow, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, Japan (2018-); Expert Panel, International Strategy Committee, University of Tsukuba (2012-2015, 2018-); Member, Digital Library Committee, National Institute for Materials Science (2016-).

Previously Nobuko served as Regional Director, Asia Pacific for ORCID (http://orcid.org) and built relationships with stakeholders across Asia Pacific to expand ORCID adoption and awareness in the research community. Prior to joining ORCID, Nobuko held positions at Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate Analytics) and Nature Publishing Group (now Springer Nature), where she worked closely with research organizations, government policy makers and funding bodies to provide solutions for research management and promotions. A librarian by training, Nobuko earned an MLIS from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.