Agnès Henri

Agnès Henri is the Managing Director of EDP Sciences, a not-for-profit publisher, established in 1920, belonging to learned societies with a mission to participate in the dissemination of important research that accelerates scientific progress and cross-fertilisation of ideas of the society in general.

She joined EDP Sciences after a Master of fundamental physics and a PhD in materials science from the University Paris 7 (Denis Diderot).

Before becoming Managing Director, she was responsible for the academic publishing branch of EDP Sciences.  Agnès manages the team of publishing editors to develop, maintain and expand the portfolio of current journals, sustain their presence in the business and widen the range of products sold by EDPS (journals, books, conferences). She has 20 years of experience in editorial, acquisitions and business development within the scholarly publishing industry, especially with all aspects of the STM environment including submission and peer review, access models, publishing and hosting platforms, digital production, ethics, scholarly metrics, XML/Conversion, all related technology. Agnès is also part of the executive board of the International Year of Light in France, and a regular speaker and contributor at industry events, especially in France.