Dr. Jessica Sänger is Director for European and International Affairs at Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German publishers and booksellers association).
She chairs the International Publishers Association’s Copyright Committee.
Ms. Sänger joined Börsenverein in 2008 where she was Deputy Head of the Legal Department from 2011. She studied Law at Exeter and Mainz, and trained for the bar in Mainz, from where she also received her Doctorate in law. Previous roles include a period as trainee case handler at the European Commission’s DG COMP (Media Unit) and management of an LL.M programme in Media Law. Ms. Sänger has been a visiting lecturer at Louisville and Bristol law schools for copyright, free speech, constitutional law, and law of broadcasting and the press.
Christopher England, PhD, serves as the Associate Publications Director for Program Development, Policy, and Ethics at the American Physiological Society (APS). In this role, Dr. England spearheads and executes special projects designed to advance and raise the profile of APS Publications. He is also responsible for overseeing the ethics office, which is dedicated to upholding the integrity and reproducibility of research published across all 16 APS peer-reviewed journals.
Dr. England joined APS Publications in 2020, where he played a pivotal role in the launch and management of the Society’s newest journal, Function.
Before his tenure at APS, he worked as a Managing Editor at the American Chemical Society. His career began in the academic sciences, receiving a PhD in Pharmacology & Toxicology from the University of Louisville in 2014, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in radiological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Nick Wise is a researcher at Clare College, University of Cambridge, with a background in fluid dynamics and engineering. Since 2021 he has investigated research and publishing fraud, with his work resulting in the retraction of over one thousand papers to date.
Dorothy Bishop recently retired as Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at the University of Oxford, where she conducted full-time research, funded by Wellcome Trust and ERC. She is an honorary fellow of St John’s College Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society, the British Academy and the Academy of Medical Sciences.
She has published substantial books and papers on the nature and causes of developmental language disorder, focusing on psycholinguistics, neurobiology and genetics. Beyond psychology, she is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility, and in retirement has taken up academic fraud-busting.
She is active on social media, with a popular blog, Bishopblog.
Marilyn Catis drives author engagement for IEEE and has over 27 years of experience delivering new products and services in a professional association setting. Over the past 16 years, Marilyn has focused on mentoring and building new teams to address new business challenges. She spent seven years building two new revenue streams (certification and education) for the IEEE Communications Society. Marilyn has been in her current role in Publishing Operations since 2016. Before that, she worked in IEEE’s corporate communications, sales and marketing, and educational activities departments. One example of author engagement tools and support is the IEEE Author Center, established by Marilyn’s current team. The IEEE Author Center is a one-stop shop for everything an author needs to know when publishing with IEEE. In addition to featuring easy-to-find answers to an author’s publishing questions, the Author Center shares information, authoring tools, and training videos. Other international electrical engineering professional associations have called it “the gold standard” for communicating publishing guidelines with authors.
Over the past 8 years, Marilyn’s team evolved and expanded. At inception, the focus was on peer review and establishing author engagement. Today, the focus is on ethics, education, and refining all author engagement-related products and services. Marilyn manages a team of nine, two of which are direct reports.
Nicola Jones is the Director of the Springer Nature SDG Programme: Springer Nature’s response to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
In this role she is responsible for coordinating the publishing activity across Springer Nature where it relates to the UN SDGs, with the aim of bringing research that has the potential to help achieve the Goals to the attention of those best placed to implement it. In order to do this, she works with the editors and publishers across Springer Nature’s journals, books and other products and across all relevant disciplines to ensure that the approach is joined up, information is shared across departments and that all relevant colleagues are engaged with the programme.
Mary Glenn is Chief of UN Publications in the Department of Global Communications, and oversees the promotion of United Nations’ knowledge, communication, and outreach objectives by publishing, selling, distributing, and licensing print and electronic publications, periodicals and databases that disseminate United Nations’ knowledge, studies and data. The program includes over 500 new UN publications per year, in print, digital, and accessible e-book formats, available around the world in the six official UN languages, and the subscription-based platforms UN Development Business, Comtrade, and UN-iLibrary. In addition, her department manages the e-commerce site shop.un.org, and UN Bookshops in New York and Geneva, where UN Publications, books from other publishers, and UN branded products are sold — all aligned with UN values and priorities. Before joining the UN, she was Associate Publisher at McGraw-Hill, and has experience in every sector of commercial publishing from trade start-ups to major educational,
Colin Trumbull is a Senior Manager, Strategic Account Development working within the Wiley Partner Solutions group.
Before taking this role, Colin worked as the Senior Manager, Training and Learning for J&J Editorial, where he managed all of J&J Editorial’s hiring, conducted interviews with candidates, and developed training materials and policies for the company.
His success in this role and in his own career was heavily influenced by his eight years of experience in Editorial Offices supporting scholarly publications where he led multiple editorial offices, managed teammates, and directly coached colleagues in their own professional development.
Megan Ball is Publisher for the Energy and Chemical Engineering programs within Research Reference, Global Content Partners. With over 15 years’ editorial and acquisitions experience, Megan’s interests lie in content and operations, problem-solving, and change management and implementation.
During her tenure at Elsevier and in addition to her role as commissioning editor, Megan was project manager for the editorial transition to the Content Management Group, supervisor to an intern as part of 2019 AAP/UNCF & Elsevier Summer Internship, acting Publisher for the Agricultural, Biological, and Food Sciences team, and executive editor and strategic business lead for the Streamline Commissioning Workflow.
Megan has a B.A. in English and Journalism and an M.S. in Interactive Communications. She lives in Hudson, MA with her husband and their young son.
Claire is Director of Publishing Strategy and Transformation at BMJ Group, a global healthcare knowledge provider. BMJ Group publishes 70 medical specialty journals and runs 35 international events for health professionals each year. Its flagship title, The BMJ, was first published in 1840 and is one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals.
Claire drives the strategy to connect BMJ’s researcher and physician communities to provide innovative products and services that meet evolving needs. She has spearheaded the development of sustainable business models to steer BMJ’s transition to open access, responding to funder and author needs with equitable models which support author and reader communities.
Across her 20-year career Claire has been an advocate of open science and the application of those principles to scholarly communication. She is a co-founder of the health sciences preprint server medRxiv, has contributed to Open Science Framework and ORCID working groups, and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board for Morressier.
Prior to joining BMJ she provided editorial strategic direction within senior roles for The Royal Society, The British Institute of Radiology, and Oxford University Press.
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