Igor Grossmann is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he leads the Wisdom and Culture Lab. As a cognitive/social scientist, Grossmann has been working on demystifying what makes up a “wise” judgment in the context of revolving societal and cultural changes. His chief work aims to uncover misconceptions about wisdom and societal change and to identify cultural and psychological processes that enable people to think and act wisely.
Grossmann’s work has been published in such outlets as Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Proceedings of the Royal Academy: Biological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Psychological Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His contributions have been recognized through numerous awards (e.g., Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation, SAGE Young Scholar Award from Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Rising Star Award from the Association for Psychological Science).
Professor Grossmann is an elected member of the College of New Scholars, Scientists and Artists at the Royal Society of Canada. He has been an Associate Editor of Emotion, an Associate Editor of Social Psychological and Personality Science, is the Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Inquiry, and co-hosts the “On Wisdom Podcast,” aiming to disseminate scientific insights from cognitive and social sciences to the broad academic audience and the general public. Professor Grossmann holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Michigan.
Richard is the Deputy Library at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi- Ghana.
He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of South Africa (South Africa), a Master of Philosophy in Science and Technology Studies from Stellenbosch University, South Africa, a Master of Information Services Management from London Metropolitan University (United Kingdom) and Diploma from University Ghana, Legon, Ghana. He has a full information Science background.
He is knowledgeable in digital Libraries, Data Curation, Digital Repositories and Information Management, and Open Access / Open Data issues. Very much results-driven, go-getter, follow transformational leadership principles. He provides advanced training for both Lecturers and Students and supports raising awareness of library resources in KNUST. (Literature Search, Avoiding predatory journal publishing, Digital Literacy, Plagiarism, Institutional Repositories, Open Access and Open Science)
He is the Research4Life Country Connector for Ghana and the Associate Editor for the Ghana Library Journal. He is also a reviewer of several international journals.
Michelle Fleetwood, PhD (she/her) is the Publishing Integrity Manager within the American Chemical Society’s Publication Division.
She focuses on strategy, policies and activities to support publishing integrity across the ACS journals portfolio, while embedding ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.
Meagan is the Communications Director for the Science family of journals, where she oversees efforts to boost visibility of forthcoming journal content for reporters worldwide. She also leads work to highlight updates to journal policy that respond to changing needs and standards of the scientific community. Meagan began at AAAS in 2013, as the director of the Science Press Package team. Prior to joining AAAS, she served as a senior writer at AIR Worldwide, where she interacted with more than 65 Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers to communicate advances in wind engineering, seismology, climate science, and other fields. Previously, she was a senior writer and editor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Meagan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Spanish from Gettysburg College, and a Master’s degree in Science Writing from The Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Meagan received a Fulbright Scholarship to work with Dr. Juan Antonio Raga at the University of Valencia to help determine the cause of morbillivirus resurgence among small cetaceans in the Mediterranean. Meagan also completed science-reporting internships with Science as well as National Public Radio and has freelanced for various outlets including Anesthesiology News.
Jayne has over 40 years of experience in scholarly publishing She worked for Nature Publishing Group as Publishing Director, before moving to the US working for SAGE Publishing as VP Journals. Here she helped to expand their journal portfolio and introduce open access journals to the group. Jayne then moved to Wolters Kluwer Health Learning, Research and Practice, overseeing a broad portfolio of journals, working with medical society partners and introducing new product options to help diversify traditional revenue streams. She left Wolters Kluwer in 2021 to become a consultant and has worked for Maverick since then.
Jayne served on the Board of the STM Association for a number of years: Oct 2008 – Oct 2010 and Oct 2013 – Oct 2015. She has also served on the board of IPRO and on the finance committee of Research4Life. Jayne has been a regular speaker at industry conferences during her career.
Simon established and now leads the UCL Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Initiative, which seeks to maximise the impact of UCL’s activity on the SDGs, from its teaching and research to its students’ extra-curricular endeavours and the way the university operates.
Previously, he headed marketing and communications teams for several organisation, including charities and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). The ODA was responsible for the construction of the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 Games.
He has a BA in Geography from UCL.
Alison Hope is the Regional Manager for Northern Europe at Karger.
With considerable experience of driving commercial growth for content providers and publishers, her focus during the past 20 years has been academic publishing and the European library market. She has a consistent track record of building sustainable commercial relationships and of successfully negotiating national licenses and consortia agreements.
Based in London, she regularly travels throughout Europe.
Tom Demeranville is Product Director at ORCID. He has been helping to build shared scholarly communications infrastructure for the past 20 years.
Kat Rydelek is Product Manager – Artificial Intelligence Products at Frontiers, where she is responsible for building and improving the quality of internal review platforms and tools to facilitate the publishing of high-quality and integrity articles. With over seven years of experience in various industries, spanning scientific publishing, luxury fashion, and properties, she is passionate about building products that combine AI and data to solve business and user problems.
Steve has managed the Secretariat of the UN Global Compact Network UK since 2007, connecting UK companies and other organisations in a global movement dedicated to driving corporate sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals. He has been Chair of the UN Global Compact’s Global Network Council and was a member of the UN Global Compact Board.
He was previously a Programme Director at the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) leading projects across a wide range of responsible business issue areas. Prior to joining IBLF, Steve was the founder and Managing Director of a successful retail sports equipment business in Canada.
He has a B.Comm from the University of British Columbia and an MSc in Business & Environment from Imperial College London.
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