Niamh O’Connor

Niamh is Chief Publishing Officer at PLOS where she leads the Publishing & Partnerships Team.

Her focus is on ensuring the PLOS portfolio has a strong value proposition and includes the broadest range of researcher voices, facilitating the co-creation of paths to Open Science that address the legacy of devaluing knowledge from particular groups or regions. This includes developing new business models to support Open Access and Open Science.

Prior to PLOS, Niamh was the Director of Publishing at the Biochemical Society/Portland Press and spent nine years at the Royal Society of Chemistry.

She holds a PhD in chemistry from the National University of Ireland (UCC).