STM People

Melissa Close is an Associate Publisher at Emerald Publishing, with experience working in both journals and books. She is also the Chair of ECPC’s Outreach sub-committee, which she joined in March, 2019. She is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Colette E. Bean is currently Chief Publishing Officer at the American Physiological Society overseeing the APS family of journals and their newest open access journal launch, Function. Prior to APS, Colette worked at John Wiley & Sons where she most recently served as Vice President and Society Publishing Director for the U.S. In this role, she...

Dawn Melley is Acting Managing Director, Publications, for IEEE, where she provides strategic leadership and general management oversight for IEEE’s publishing program, including content acquisition, review, and curation; indexing and digital asset management; editorial processing, including copy editing and content transformation; and delivery of products in various formats, digital as well as print. Dawn and...

Rachael Harper is a marketing and communications specialist with 17 years’ experience working within the public and private sectors, both in-house and agency side. Prior to joining IOP Publishing, she was Associate Director of the Business and Corporate division at Speed Communications, providing strategic communications and marketing direction to a broad range of clients spanning...

Claudia Russo is STM’s Director, Public Affairs EU and Global Deputy Director, Public Affairs — leading public affairs initiatives across Europe and supporting STM’s global policy & advocacy strategy. Since joining STM in April 2020, Claudia has been instrumental in gathering political intelligence, crafting effective public affairs strategies, and building strong relationships with European institutions and stakeholders...

Lauren Kane is CEO of BioOne, the nonprofit collaborative and content aggregator for more than 150 scientific societies, museums, research organizations, and independent presses across the world. She has held this role since 2022, leading an ambitious strategic agenda that includes the creation of new Open Access pathways and the challenge of scaling with equity, sustainability,...

Henning Schoenenberger runs a global Data Development department at Springer Nature, finding cutting-edge responses to key problems in the research and library communities in areas such as access, analytics and machine-learning as well as content and data delivery models and discovery.

Stephanie Veldman is Head of Open Research at Brill, where she is responsible for the development of models and services to grow Open Research in HSS. She has been involved with Brill’s Open Access program from the start. She also gained experience with institutional OA publishing at Utrecht University’s journal publishing program. Back at Brill since...

Erin is the Director of Rightsholder Relations at Copyright Clearance Center leading a team of Strategic and Key Account Managers who manage relationships, engagement, and service enrollment for publishers across the market including STM, research, trade, news, standards, and more. In her current role, Erin is responsible for representing CCC within the publisher market and...

Hiromitsu (Hiro) Urakami is Editorial Developmental Manager for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) based in Tokyo, Japan. He also holds a position as a Manager for Royal Society of Chemistry Japan KK. He is responsible for the business strategy, vision, and implementation plan for RSC activities in Japan, as well as product strategies for...