Liz Ferguson

Liz Ferguson began her career in scientific publishing at Current Science, Thomson Science and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins before moving to Blackwell Publishing, acquired by Wiley in 2007. Wiley is where she has now spent almost two decades progressing through various roles in editorial, society management, and open research. Today, as Senior Vice President for Research Publishing, she leads one of the largest journal publishing divisions in the industry. She sets strategy, drives transformation, works with hundreds of external partners who own their own portfolios, and builds effective teams. Over 25 years, she has led and experienced major transformations, scaled new business models across global markets, and stood at the forefront of some of the industry’s most significant challenges. She remains an active voice on the future of scholarly communication, speaking regularly on open access, research integrity, and increasingly AI.

Liz’s previous term on this Board (2021-2024), service as Chair of the Publishers Association’s Academic Publishers Council and other industry responsibilities, has given her first-hand experience of good governance, a thorough understanding of how the industry sets its high standards, and where there is plenty of scope to innovate and prove its value further.

Liz is standing for election to the STM Association Board again now because she believes STM’s work to advance trusted research through research integrity, open research, standards and technology, and preparing the industry for AI is far from finished. She wants to support STM in continuing to lead in these areas to the benefit of the industry and the wider scholarly community who rely on our work.