Haseeb is a biologist-turned-development facilitator, who often introduces himself as a research enthusiast.
Over the last two decades, he has worked for development organisations, academic institutions, donors, and consulting firms in different capacities.
Currently, he is an independent consultant on the environment, climate change, and research systems. He is also involved with the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) as a visiting research fellow.
An Associate of INASP (UK) and an Associate Editor of ALPSP’s Learned Publishing, he has been mentoring young researchers and designing and facilitating training sessions and dialogues for them and journal editors to improve their understanding of journal publishing standards and practices.
A Chef of The Scholarly Kitchen blog, Haseeb has a Ph.D. in aquatic ecology from the University of Liverpool, UK.
Ms Mawire is an information and knowledge management specialist with over 15 years of experience working in Sub-Sahara Africa and other parts of the world. She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Project Management, Strategic Innovations, Capacity Building, Knowledge Management, Heritage Assets Management, Digital Inclusion, and Critical Appraisal of Evidence.
Blessing has led the implementation of multi-country/regional projects across Sub-Saharan Africa and worked with diverse global partners from community-based organizations, research institutions, governments, and United Nations agencies.
Ms Mawire has strong experience in designing information and knowledge management approaches tailor-made for specific communities with a focus on sustainable impacts.
Harini Calamur works at the intersection of Audiences, Technology, Content, and Academia
With a career spanning 25+ years, her primary focus has been to make high-quality education content accessible to diverse audiences.
At impact science she works with Governments, Funders, Universities, and Research Institutes, to take their research to specific niches that can act on it, creating impact.
She is a regular columnist with leading publications writing around Technology, Disruption, and Economics. She also writes on Gender, and Rights.
She is visiting Faculty at leading universities – teaching programmes around Digital Democracy and Citizenship – looking at how digital access and digital monopolies impact individual rights, society, and democracy.
Andrea Lopez is the Director of Sales, Partnerships & Initiatives at Annual Reviews where she is responsible for the sales and distribution of Annual Reviews journals.
She has over 25 years of experience in academic publishing sales. She joined Annual Reviews in 1999 to manage the then new site license program and has enjoyed partnering with librarians and sales agents worldwide to build the program.
Most recently she has been involved in developing and implementing the Subscribe to Open model for Annual Reviews and establishing the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice.
Tomoko Shirai
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) Earth System Division
Head of the Office for Global Environmental Data Integration and Analytics
Head of the Global Carbon Project Tsukuba International Office
Principal Research Coordinator of the Planning department
Tomoko Shirai completed her Ph.D. in the department of chemistry, Graduate school of science at the University of Tokyo. Thereafter, she worked for the Earth Observation Research Centre of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Rowland/Blake laboratory in the chemistry department at University of California, Irvine (UCI). She joined National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in 2004. Her main research interest has been environmental impact of atmospheric trace gases, especially greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O, halocarbons…). She also fosters open science also fosters open science by operating a database (Global Environmental Database) and developing a research data management system. She is the chair of the subcommittee on promoting DOIs registration for research data, and a member of the Japan Data Repository Network (JDARN), affiliated with the Research Data Utilization Forum (RDUF).
Ritsuko Nakajima is Director of the Department for Information Infrastructure at Japan Science and Technology Agency(JST), where she is responsible for information services, including the Japanese journal aggregator “J-STAGE,” the DOI registration agency “Japan Link Center.” the Japanese researcher directory “researchmap” etc.
Ritsuko is also taking care of promoting open access for articles/data as research output derived from research projects funded by JST.
Dr. Rose Sokol is the Journal and Book Publisher at the American Psychological Association.
Her team is responsible for the content across the 90 journals, APA Style, scholarly and professional books, psychotherapy training videos, and trade books for kids and adults.
The team collectively focuses on the shared vision of setting publishing standards in psychology and ensuring equity, diversity, and inclusion in the publishing process. Dr. Sokol obtained her PhD in social psychology from Clark University.
Dr. Erika Pastrana is Editorial Director for the Nature Research Journals and oversees the health and applied portfolio. For over 5 years, she has been developing Springer Nature’s editorial policy for code sharing, peer review and publication and has led several new initiatives to test the use of container platforms for peer review and publication of code. Since April 2022, she is working to develop SN’s Open Science Roadmap.
Erika is part of several cross-disciplinary working groups related to code publication and sharing including the FORCE11 Software Citation Journals Task Force and NISO’s working group for developing reproducibility badges for computational work. She is also Board Member of the digital preservation platform CLOCKSS.
Erika obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience and worked as a researcher at Columbia University prior to becoming an editor in 2010.
Mathieu currently serves as Acting CEO and Science Director of the ISC. He was appointed Science Director at the creation of the ISC in 2018, having previously served as Executive Director of the International Social Science Council since 2015.
Mathieu holds a Ph.D. in history from Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He has previously taught history, political theory and industrial relations at Université du Québec à Montréal, and Université de Montréal.
Mathieu Denis worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Berlin Social Science Centre and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies.
Roheena is Executive Director for Global Publishing Development at PLOS. She is responsible for expanding PLOS’s global profile and influence via partnerships, networks, and initiatives to engage global research communities and stakeholders in developing an equitable open research future. She has over 20 years experience from across the STM publishing industry, including strategic leadership of global teams and diverse portfolios at both commercial and society publishers.
Roheena was previously Head of Open Access Journals at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), with responsibility for the Open Access programme and policy for the organisation. She has a master’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford.
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