STM People

Dr. Carlos Toro is a seasoned publishing leader with more than a decade of experience in scholarly communications and journal management. He currently serves as Associate Publisher at ACS Publications, where he provides strategic and operational leadership for a portfolio of scientific journals. In this role, he drives portfolio growth, oversees new journal launches, manages...

Katherine (Katie) Eve is Policy Director for Open Science at Elsevier where she tracks and interprets the global policy landscape and works with the business to serve researchers and ensure they can meet their research goals. She has worked in the publishing industry for over 17 years, including 15 years at Elsevier, in varied publishing...

Jenny Peng is Executive Publisher at Oxford University Press where she helps drive OUP’s strategy and engagement with open access and open research in the US. In her role, Jenny partners closely with academic societies and nonprofit organizations, and leads a team overseeing the OA and proprietary STM journal portfolio in the US. Prior to...

Christine Reilley is the Managing Director of Publishing at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), headquartered in New York City. In this role, she oversees ASME’s publishing portfolio and champions initiatives that advance knowledge-sharing across the global engineering community. Christine’s career at ASME spans diverse leadership positions. She previously headed the Strategy and Innovation...

Steven J. West is the Histology Research Scientist for the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre. In this role, he is developing new tissue clearing and histology protocols, as well as image analysis methods, to contribute to understanding the structural organisation of the central nervous system (CNS). Steven is currently working with the International Brain Laboratory to help develop an...

Gráinne leads the Research Integrity / Publication Ethics team at Karger Publishers, responsible for developing research integrity policies and conducting investigations for all Karger publications, and is an elected COPE Council member as of 2025. Since 2017, she has been working in research integrity teams at publishers, and she is particularly interested in promoting activities...

Nancy is COO and Senior Associate at Maverick Publishing Consultants. She has over 25 years’ experience in publishing operations, and offers clear thinking and practical, impactful recommendations. Her focus is on helping organizations work better, and she also specializes in management and leadership development and organizational design.

Dr. Jennifer Wright is the Head of Publication Ethics and Research Integrity at Cambridge University Press. She is also an elected COPE Council member and a registered advisor for the UK Research Integrity Office. She participates in the STM Researcher Identity Task and Finish Group alongside other initiatives such as NISO CREC, the Forensic Scientometrics...

Apoorva Shah is Vice President of Product Management and UX at Wiley, where he leads strategic initiatives to enhance product value and drive innovation across the company’s publishing and solutions portfolio. Shah spearheads Wiley’s platform that enables scholarly content discovery through AI tools while maintaining academic integrity and proper attribution standards. Shah has established strategic...

With more than twenty-five years of experience in scholarly communications and association management, Lori Carlin is a recognized expert in business strategy, customer and market insight, and change management. Lori is currently the Chief Commercial Officer at Delta Think, a consultancy focused on strategy, and has also held senior positions for a number of scholarly...