Claire Rawlinson

Claire is Director of Publishing Strategy and Transformation at BMJ Group, a global healthcare knowledge provider. BMJ Group publishes 70 medical specialty journals and runs 35 international events for health professionals each year. Its flagship title, The BMJ, was first published in 1840 and is one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals.

Claire drives the strategy to connect BMJ’s researcher and physician communities to provide innovative products and services that meet evolving needs. She has spearheaded the development of sustainable business models to steer BMJ’s transition to open access, responding to funder and author needs with equitable models which support author and reader communities.

Across her 20-year career Claire has been an advocate of open science and the application of those principles to scholarly communication. She is a co-founder of the health sciences preprint server medRxiv, has contributed to Open Science Framework and ORCID working groups, and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board for Morressier.

Prior to joining BMJ she provided editorial strategic direction within senior roles for The Royal Society, The British Institute of Radiology, and Oxford University Press.