Robert M Harington D.Phil is the Chief Publishing Officer at the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Robert has the overall responsibility for publishing at the AMS, including books, journals and electronic products.
Robert is a “Chef” for The Scholarly Kitchen Blog. Robert has worked in non-profit and commercial settings, internationally, with particular experience across the United States, Europe, and Asia (focus on China and Japan). Robert holds a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Oxford, and a first-class honors degree in chemistry from the University of London.
Miriam Maus is Chief Publishing Officer at IOP Publishing (IOPP), one of the world’s leading learned society publishers. Miriam is responsible for the creation and delivery of the organisation’s publishing and researcher engagement strategy. She is a member of IOPP’s Board of Directors.
IOPP’s product portfolio encompasses 110+ open access and hybrid journals, books series, many of which are published in partnership with other learned societies, conference proceedings and a global science news programme.
Working with a global team of publishing and marketing professionals, Miriam ensures that IOPP’s publishing activities deliver trusted content of high quality and that the organisation takes a leadership role in publishing ethics and integrity, inclusive and transparent publishing practices and that the power of technology is harnessed to improve the publishing experience for all involved.
During her 25 years in academic publishing Miriam has created strategies, developed business opportunities and led diverse teams through periods of change and growth. Prior to joining IOPP, Miriam worked for Blackwell Publishing and Wiley in a range of senior leadership roles, until January 2021 as Vice President and Managing Director, Editorial Management.
Miriam has served on Research4Life’s Executive Council since 2019, advising on strategic and operational issues. She is a Trustee for the New Phytologist Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to promoting research in plant biology, and a member of the Publisher’s Association Academic Publishers Council. She joined STM’s Research Integrity Committee in spring 2023
Elaine Stott is the CEO of Canadian Science Publishing (CSP), Canada’s largest independent, not-for-profit publisher of scientific research journals; publishing 22 peer-reviewed journals covering the natural and physical sciences and engineering. She moved to CSP, and Canada in September 2021, and here she is a champion of mission-driven research publishing. She is a passionate supporter of open science and open-access research publishing, and she believes publishers need to collaborate with others involved in the research workflow to find long-term sustainable solutions.
Previously she has held senior management roles at Taylor and Francis, Cambridge University Press and Wiley where she was responsible for large science and medical publishing programs including open access, subscription journals, and books. She has also worked at Thomas Telford, CABI and Chapman and Hall.
Jackie Benoist joined STM in September 2022 part-time as Executive Assistant to Caroline Sutton, CEO.
In her role, Jackie supports Caroline by helping to administer and assist with the organization of key strategic projects within STM.
Before joining STM Jackie worked for almost two decades at Taylor & Francis an Informa UK business as part of the Executive team supporting the current and previous CEO.
She has had many years of publishing experience in various roles. Her publishing career began at Blackwell’s followed by 11 years at Heinemann and 3 years at Elsevier before joining Taylor & Francis.
Kim Steinle is the Library Relations and Sales Manager.
Kim has worked at the Press for over 15 years and is responsible for institutional subscription revenue through the sale of electronic collections and through communication with the library community. Advocating for librarian interests in the development and implementation of pricing models is a priority for Kim.
As an active participant at major library conferences, Kim serves on several committees with a special interest in publisher/librarian collaboration.
Jessica Hoy has a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis where her research focused on synthesis and spectroscopy of quantum confined semiconductors.
She continued similar research during her postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island.
In 2015, Jessica began working as a Journal Manager at AIP Publishing focusing on strategies and projects to support journal goals, for both core AIP Publishing journals and society partner journals.
More recently, she launched the journal AVS Quantum Science and is a representative on the Joint Commitment for action on inclusion and diversity in publishing, formed by RSC.
Ed is the Director of Research Environment Alliances at Springer Nature.
He has over 20 years of scholarly publishing experience with Springer Nature, including 11 years as a journal editor, with stints at Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, and Nature Communications.
From 2012 to 2018, he helped found and build Nature’s first mainland China office in Shanghai.
From 2019 to 2022, he was the Director of Journal Policy & Strategy and was responsible for the development and implementation of policy and strategy across the entire Springer Nature journal portfolio. And in his current role, he is responsible for building alliances with research institutions and community organisations working to improve the way research is done.
Dr. Irving Rettig (he/they) is an inorganic chemist and transgender activist in the STEM fields.
He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Pitzer College in 2014, completed his Ph.D. in inorganic photochemistry in 2021 at Portland State University, and is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Rettig is a founding member of the Name Change Policy Working Group (NCPWG), a group comprised of transgender/genderqueer academics and cisgender allies that collaborates with journals and publishers to adopt more inclusive name change policies on publications that better accommodate transgender authors.
He is also a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) subgroup on name change policies, which is developing new guidance on name change policies for all 12,000+ of its member journals.
He has personally overseen the development of name change policies with ACS, IOP, Wiley, and more.
Nick Lindsay has worked for The MIT Press since 2008 where he leads both the journals division and the Press’ open access efforts. He’s focused on developing new titles and business models to support the Press and has worked extensively with scholarly societies, university departments, and others on innovative journal projects, including Rapid Reviews: COVID-19.
Prior to MIT, Nick worked at the University of California Press in their journals group.
Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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