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Dr. Paul-André Genest is an Assistant Director and Publisher at the American Chemical Society where he is responsible for the management of roughly a third of the ACS journals portfolio and Editorial Development team. Since 2016, he is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University where he co-teaches a yearly course on scholarly communication (BIOS 292: Preparation and Practice: Scientific Communication & Media). Previously, he worked as a Publisher and Senior Editor at Wiley and as an Associate Publisher and Scientific Editor at Elsevier. Dr. Genest has a BSc (Biology) degree and a MSc (Microbiology-Immunology) degree from the Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, and a PhD (Molecular Parasitology) from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He held two postdoc research positions at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands before transitioning to the scholarly publishing industry.

Mark Garlinghouse is an independent consultant supporting STM in Asia.  Since 2015, Mark has supported the STM China Chapter and other coordination for STM in Asia. 

Mark is a strategy and management consultant working with clients in Asia from a base in Singapore.  He was formerly the Managing Director of Asia Pacific for the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters (now Clarivate) where he led their Asia expansion opening offices throughout the region. 

Sai Konda is an Associate Publisher in the Global Journals Development, Publications Division, at the American Chemical Society (ACS). He began his publishing career as a Managing Editor at the ACS after graduating with a Ph.D. in computational chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin, and postdoctoral research at the University of Delaware. He is currently responsible for the strategic development and financial management of eleven journals in the nanoscience, energy, surface science and computational chemistry portfolios. In his tenure at the ACS, he has overseen over 20 journals across the broad disciplines of chemistry and materials science research areas.

He also actively volunteers on various committees at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and is a previous recipient of the Early Career Fellowship, past co-chair of the Early-Career Subcommittee, and currently serves as a Member on SSP’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Sai is a passionate advocate for science literacy, career advocacy and STEM education.

Peter Gluckman became President of the International Science Council in October 2021. His term will continue until the General Assembly of 2024.

Peter heads Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures (www.informedfutures.org) at the University of Auckland. From 2009-2018 he was first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Ministers of New Zealand and from 2012-2018 Science Envoy for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.  He was foundation chair of the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA) from 2014-2021.

He trained as a pediatrician and biomedical scientist, publishing over 700 papers and several academic and popular books in animal science, developmental physiology, growth and development and evolutionary biology and evolutionary medicine. He co-chaired the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (2013-2017). He is chief scientific officer of the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.

Peter Gluckman has written and spoken extensively on science-policy, risk assessment, science-diplomacy, and science-society interactions. In 2016 he received the AAAS award in Science Diplomacy. He has received the highest civilian and scientific honours in New Zealand. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, of the Royal Society of New Zealand, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and a member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA). He holds a Distinguished University Professorship in the University of Auckland, New Zealand and honorary chairs at the University College London, University of Southampton and National University of Singapore.

Ben Townsend is Senior Vice President, Research Sales at Wiley. He leads a global sales organisation serving Wiley’s customers in academic and corporate channels.

Over the past 24 years, Ben has held numerous sales, marketing, and editorial roles at Wiley and Blackwell.

Marcel LaFlamme is Open Research Manager at PLOS. He engages with research communities to collaboratively develop solutions that increase adoption of open research practices.

Trained as a librarian and a cultural anthropologist, Marcel serves on the Publishing Futures Committee of the American Anthropological Association.

He is also the author of “Affiliation in Transition: Rethinking Society Membership with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences” (https://doi.org/10.29242/report.affiliationintransition2020), a report commissioned by the Association of Research Libraries.

Ana Heredia is a former researcher turned scholarly communications specialist. A biologist by training, after an MSc in Neurosciences, a PhD in Sciences, and two postdocs, Ana joined the STM publishing world, developing expertise in scientific information infrastructure, analytics, and publishing.

During more than 20 years of research and professional experience, Ana developed knowledge and a vision of the different components in the research ecosystem, and solid connections globally at universities, research funding, and government agencies.

She is an engaged member of SSP and C4DISC, and part of the NISO Plus Advisory Committee.

Ana is particularly committed to open research, the responsible use of metrics in research evaluation, and bibliodiversity and multilingualism as part of the inclusion and diversity in scholarly communication agenda.
Ana Heredia – https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7862-8955

Rod runs IWA Publishing, one of the first learned society publishers to completely transition its journals to Open Access.

He is a Director of ALPSP, a Board member of OASPA, a Council Member of the Society Publishers’ Coalition, and on the Publishing Board of The Royal Society.

Rod previously ran Medical, Life Science, and Environmental journals at Taylor & Francis for ten years. He has also worked at Blackwell Publishing, Reed Education, and York Press.

Lois Elliott is a B2C Marketing Coordinator at F1000, responsible for raising author awareness of F1000Research and driving submissions across all subjects to the platform.

She has a degree in History from the University of Warwick, and her dissertation focused on cultural appropriation in the music industry during the 1950s & 1960s.   

Kath (she/her) specialises in development for the humanities and social sciences portfolio at Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

With over 15 years’ experience working in scholarly communications Kath has worked in a variety of publishing roles from commissioning and programme management to designing and implementing effective publishing strategies for scholarly societies and journal editorial teams.

Kath’s main area of focus is to discover new opportunities for digital, open, and public humanities, using human-centred design techniques and deeply embedding within research and practice communities.

She co-leads the Publishing and Public Humanities, working group. ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7785-9604