Before joining Brill in 2015, Peter Coebergh served as President Corporate & Healthcare Markets at Springer Science + Business Media, and member of the Management Board.
Previously Peter Coebergh worked at Springer as President of STM Sales ROW (2007-2011) and as Vice-President Library Sales ROW (2004 to 2007).
Between 1999 and 2004 he was Sales Director at Kluwer Academic Publishers (2001 to 2004) and Marketing Director of Kluwer – Business Unit Legal (1999 to 2001).
He held various International Marketing and Sales positions at Royal BolsWessanen and Unilever from 1989 to 1999.
In 1987 he obtained a Master in Law in Dutch civil law from Leiden University.
Laura Dormer is Editorial Director at the Future Science Group (FSG).
Laura began her career in publishing when she joined Expert Reviews as a Commissioning Editor in 2003. She has since worked in various roles at FSG, before taking on her current role in 2015.
She has developed expertise in journal development and publication ethics and has been the Launch Editor of numerous journals. This includes the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research, for which she is the current Managing Editor and which, over the past 10 years, has led to her particular interest in the fields of health policy, health economics and outcomes research.
In her current role, Laura is responsible for managing FSG’s Editorial Department, overseeing the management and development of new and existing journals in the FSG portfolio.
Laura has a BSc (Hons) in Genetics from The University of Sheffield (UK), and in recent years has dedicated her time to projects relating to her key areas of interest, including publication ethics and patient engagement.
Jean-Eric Paquet became Director-General of DG Research and Innovation on 1st April 2018; however, his involvement in EU research policy dates back from 2002, as Deputy Head of Cabinet of Philippe Busquin, then Commissioner in charge of Research and Development.
Jean-Eric’s career at the European Commission started in 1993. Since then he contributed in shaping EU policy in various fields and achieved major breakthroughs, notably in DG Transport, where he led the development of the Trans-European Transport Network Policy and was responsible for Europe’s transport infrastructure policy and investment strategies, the single European rail area, inland waterways, and port policy.
He also gained considerable experience at international level: in DG Enlargement, his portfolio covered Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and FYROM. He was also EU Ambassador in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania from 2004 to 2007.
In 2015, he was appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the European Commission, in charge of Better Regulation and Policy Coordination.
In all his endeavours, he puts co-creation and systemic change at the heart of the decision-making process, and strongly believes that citizens should be more involved in shaping public policy agendas.
Bas de Bruin is a professor in homogeneous catalysis (chemistry) at the University of Amsterdam. He investigates how to increase the efficiency and sustainability of chemical reactions can be enhanced with catalysis and electrochemistry.
He is a strong proponent of society journal publishing and is a member of the editorial advisory boards of ACS Catalysis and JACS Au. He was elected as Chemistry Europe fellow in 2020.
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor as well as Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library and Affiliate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Center for Global Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Her responsibilities encompass instruction programs for library users and professional development for library staff and faculty as well as campus outreach and collaborations related to teaching and learning. Courses taught include International Information Organizations and Policy Making, Library Service Evaluation, and Academic Librarianship.
As the 2010-2011 ACRL President, she led the launch of the ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Initiative. Lisa is a “chef” in The Scholarly Kitchen and serves on the Executive Committee of the ORCID Board and on the Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Lisa has consulted, presented, and published widely on scholarly communications, publishing, the value of libraries, strategic planning, organizational innovation, emerging technologies, program evaluation, library assessment, inclusion and equity, information literacy, and teaching and learning.
Her clients include libraries, colleges and universities, scholarly and professional associations, and non-profit organizations and for-profit companies in the library business community.
For more information – website: lisahinchliffe.com, Twitter: @lisalibrarian, and ORCID: 0000-0002-5129-4235.
Lois Jones (pronouns: she/her) is a Peer Review Manager for the Journals Department at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she co-manages the Peer Review program, which includes 90 journals and 20 Peer Review Coordinators.
Lois is focused on ensuring a transparent and ethical peer review process for authors, while providing reviewers and editors with the exceptional support they need in the constantly changing landscape of scholarly publishing.
She is 2014 graduate of the Master of Professional Studies (MPS) in Publishing program at the George Washington University and a 2017 SSP Early Career Fellow. Currently, Lois serves on the inaugural editorial board for GWU’s Journals of Ethics in Publishing.
Marcel earned his PhD and spent close to 10 years in academic research working on a broad mix of data and information systems technologies.
After a short stay in industrial research with Bell Labs Ireland, he switched to an industry career with the database business of Springer Nature. He is currently leading a team of data architects, software engineers, and domain experts responsible for designing, implementing, and delivering the data backbone of Springer Nature’s Data & Analytics Solutions. The scope of this work spans from core data management and data integration aspects over designing and establishing smart domain-specific data solutions to shaping the data and AI strategy of the business.
Philippa Grand is Publisher for International Development and Research Methods and Practices at Bristol University Press, where she is also the contact for the UN SDG Publishers Compact.
After receiving her PhD in History at University of Manchester she has worked for nearly 20 years within academic book publishing at Manchester University Press, Routledge, Emerald and Palgrave Macmillan.
She has particular interests in how academic practice is evolving to address global social challenges.
Scott Dineen oversees publishing production operations and technologies for The Optical Society journals and conference proceedings.
He leads a team that focuses on operational efficiency, new product development, and business content intelligence reporting.
Waylon Butler is Director of Customer Experience, Order Processing, and Business Intelligence at AIP Publishing. In this role, he drives system and process improvement, seeks ever-higher levels of product quality, and steers development of data and analytical capabilities.
AIP Publishing is a not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics and provides scholarly publishing activities in the fields of the physical and related sciences on behalf of several publishing partners. AIP Publishing is committed to ensuring that all scientific work supporting the physical sciences be presented, promoted, and made permanently available through our journals, books, and resources.
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