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After finishing School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, I obtained an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK, and then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine in Departments of Medical Humanities and Research in biomedicine and health, where I obtained my PhD in Medical Ethics titled: Integrity of scientific publications in biomedicine.

I have been researching authorship, peer review, duplicate publications, and publication bias. From 2017-2019 I have been a postdoc at AMC and ASUS Amsterdam, Netherlands, and in 2020 I joined METRICS at Stanford University where I will focus on meta-research of preprints. I am also a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity and Peer Review journal https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/.

Andrea Alexander is an Associate Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Houston Office. 

She specializes in transforming large institutions to deliver lasting performance improvements in our ever changing world.

She has significant expertise in org design, culture, leadership team effectiveness, capability building, DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion), change management and communications. Ultimately, she enjoys helping individuals, teams and organizations accomplish what they never thought possible.

She is leading the Firm’s thinking on Reimagining the Workforce (with a specific focus on hybrid-virtual models) and Organizing for the Future. She has served clients in various industries, including Oil & Gas, Pharma/ Med Device, and Telecom.

Scott Edmunds is Editor-in-Chief for GigaScience and an Executive Committee member for Open Data Hong Kong. He has co-founded Citizen Science organisations Bauhinia Genome and CitizenScience.Asia, is on the Board of Directors of the Dryad Digital Repository, and also teaches data management and curation at Hong Kong University.

His academic background includes training in Biochemistry at Imperial College and a PhD on the Molecular Pathology of Ocular Melanoma at the Royal London Hospital.

After postdoctoral positions on Cancer Molecular Pathology at the WHO International Agency for Research in Cancer in Lyon and Institute of Cell and Molecular Sciences in London (Queen Mary) he was senior scientific editor for the BMC Genomics and Bioinformatics journals at BioMed Central before moving in 2010 to Shenzhen/Hong Kong to set up the GigaScience journal and GigaDB database for the BGI (the world’s largest genomic organisation). GigaScience launched in July 2012, and their second journal, GigaByte, has just started publishing it’s first papers.

Lex Bouter is Professor Emeritus of Methodology and Integrity at the Department of Epidemiology and Data Science of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit.

He is involved in research and teaching on research integrity and open science topics. He was appointed as tenured Professor of Epidemiology in 1992 and served his university as its rector between 2006 and 2013.

Professor Bouter has supervised 78 PhD students, of whom to date 17 were appointed as professor. He is the founding chair of the World Conferences on Research Integrity Foundation.

Oya Y. Rieger is a senior strategist on Ithaka S+R’s Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums team. She spearheads projects that re-examine the nature of collections within the research library, help secure access to and preservation of the scholarly record, and explore the possibilities of open source software and open science.

Prior to joining Ithaka S+R, Oya worked at Cornell University for 25 years. For the past ten years she served as Associate University Librarian, leading strategic initiatives, building partnerships, and facilitating sustainable and user-centered projects. During her tenure at Cornell, her program areas included digital scholarship, collection development, digitization, preservation, user experience, scholarly publishing, learning technologies, research data management, digital humanities, and special collections. She spearheaded projects funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS), the Henry Luce Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Simons Foundation, and Sloan Foundation to develop ejournal preservation strategies, conduct research on new media archiving, implement preservation programs in Asia, design digital curation curriculums, and create sustainability models for alternative publishing models to advance science communication.

From 2009 – August 2019, Oya led the operations, governance, sustainability, and strategic development of arXiv.org, the open access preprint service for research papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, electric engineering, system science, and economics. She continues to serve an an advisor for arXiv.

Oya has held  numerous leadership positions with national and international organizations, including with Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), HathiTrust, OpenAIRE Sustainability Project, National Digital Stewardship Residency, Portico, and Project Euclid. Throughout her career, Oya has published widely on a range of topics such as institutional and subject repositories, digital preservation, and developing sustainable business models for new forms of scholarly communication. At Cornell, she taught courses on visual research and scientific collaborations at the communication and architecture departments.

With an undergraduate degree in economics, she holds an M.S. in Public Administration (University of Oklahoma), an M.S. in Information Systems (Columbia University), and a Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction (Cornell University). Her doctoral work focused on how information and communication technologies support research and scholarly discourse of humanities scholars. She was guided by the principles of grounded theory and social informatics in gathering and analyzing data about scholars’ perceptions and accounts of technology use.

Recently joined Wiley as Director of Library sales, APAC. Katsuhisa has over 15 years experience within STM publishing industry including sales representative at Elsevier and SPRINGERNATURE. Prior joining to Wiley, Katsuhisa played role within pharma sponsored medical writing space, as General Manager of ProScribe KK and Head of Life Science/Impact Science at CACTUS Japan KK. He has an unique background dedicated for the travel industry for more than 13 years before joining the STM publishing industry.

Travis Hicks joined the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2015 and currently serves as the director of web operations. In that capacity, Travis oversees a team that charged with maintaining ASCO’s digital assets, improving user experience, and monitoring web analytics.

Prior to joining ASCO, Travis served as the director of publishing and director of new product development for Thompson Information Services, formerly Thompson Publishing Group.

Travis began his career as a journalist covering Congressional education policy and is a graduate of James Madison University.

Chris Rudyj is Senior Technical Product Manager for Health Affairs, which publishes the influential health policy journal, Health Affairs, as well as timely, high-profile content on Health Affairs Blog and Health Policy Briefs. Health Affairs is based in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area.

Prior to joining Health Affairs, Chris worked in the legal industry for almost 20 years, focusing on marketing and business development, and spearheaded several marketing technology and website projects.  

Chris leads and manages technical digital development projects for Health Affairs, including administering Health Affairs’ proprietary health policy taxonomy across all technology platforms, and coordinates Health Affairs’ internal taxonomy team.

In her spare time, Chris is a violinist and concert master for one of DC metro’s community orchestras, The McLean Symphony.

Naomi Lee is a Senior Executive Editor at The Lancet. She heads the research section of the journal, leading the development and implementation of the research strategy for The Lancet, and advising on the research content of the other journals in the Lancet family of journals. Naomi handles peer review and commissioning across a broad range of subjects including her specialist areas of surgery, digital medicine/AI, and medical technology.

Naomi joined The Lancet in 2014 and was previously an Executive Editor where alongside editorial work she led on digital transformation of the Lancet group, delivering a responsive website. Previously she studied medicine at Cambridge University and King’s College London, before training in surgery, specialising in urology and working for almost 10 years in the UK. She has completed fellowships in Argentina and Mexico. She has also studied data science at University College London.

Hilary Hanahoe was appointed Secretary General of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) in February 2018. Her responsibilities include leadership of RDA’s membership, effective management of the RDA organization and its legal entity (RDA Foundation), engagement with RDA funders, stakeholders and organisations, and sustainable stewardship of the dynamic, active, and high-impact community of over of over 11,000 individual members from 145 countries worldwide, together with over 60 organisational members.

Hilary is responsible for the financial and organisational sustainability of RDA on an international level and is the CEO of the RDA Foundation offices (Global and Europe). She works closely with the RDA Council and all governance boards and members of the RDA community.

She is passionate about the work of the Research Data Alliance and its vibrant, volunteer community working to enable the open sharing and reuse of data.