Jennifer Gibson

Jennifer is Executive Director of Dryad, the open data publishing platform and community committed to the sharing and reuse of all research data.

Since 2005, she has worked with scientists, funders, publishers, libraries, developers and others to accelerate discovery through transformations in research communication, research culture, and technological infrastructure.

Prior to Dryad, Jennifer was Head of Open Research Communication and founding Head of Marketing and Communications for eLife, a non-profit and research funder-backed initiative to transform science publishing, and Director of Programs and Operations for SPARC, where she helped advocate for open data and the introduction of the first U.S. public access policies.

She is former Chair of the Board of Directors for OASPA (the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association), a member of the Board of Directors for DataCite and Advisory Board for the Data Curation Network.