Laura Hassink

Laura Hassink is President – Journals, overseeing more than 3000 journals and publishing over 700,000 research articles annually. She is committed to promoting inclusion in research. Laura has been instrumental in accelerating Elsevier’s substantial progress in open access publishing, now offering more than 900 gold open access journals.

During her 29 years with Elsevier, she held positions in Strategy, Product, Business Development and Publishing.

Laura serves on the board of STM, the global trade association for academic publishers. She has a genuine passion for understanding the needs of research communities and upholding high standards of quality, research integrity, and publication ethics in scholarly communications.