Since July 2022, Elaine Westbrooks has been the University Librarian at Cornell University. She is responsible for the leadership and general administration of the University Library as well as Cornell University Press, which includes over 15 libraries and nearly 400 staff.
Westbrooks serves on the board of numerous organizations, including Sage Publishing and the Center for Open Science. Westbrooks is a leading thinker on issues related to equity, inclusion, and social justice in academic Libraries. While leading the University Libraries at UNC, Chapel Hill, Westbrooks lead the creation of the Reckoning Initiative, which has become an exemplar for transformational equity work in academic libraries. She has a B.A. and a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh.
Melissa Blaney is the Senior Director of Global Marketing, Community Development & Communications for ACS Publications. Melissa leads an award-wining team focused on author, reviewer and researcher community development; advertising sales; and content marketing for the entire ACS Publications portfolio of 60+ journals, ACS ebooks and Chemical & Engineering News magazine.
Melissa has over 20 years of experience in publishing and digital marketing. Prior to joining ACS, Melissa held positions at Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Washington Life magazine and Psychology Today magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from University of Maryland’s prestigious Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Jessica Polka serves as Executive Director of ASAPbio, a researcher-driven nonprofit organization working to promote innovation and transparency in life sciences publishing in areas such as preprinting and open peer review.
Prior to this, she performed postdoctoral research in the department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School following a PhD in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from UCSF.
Jessica is also a Plan S Ambassador, an affiliate of the Knowledge Futures Group, and a steering committee member of Rescuing Biomedical Research.
Julia Stoyanovich is an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Center for Data Science.
Julia’s research focuses on responsible data management and analysis practices: on operationalizing fairness, diversity, transparency, and data protection in all stages of the data acquisition and processing lifecycle.
She established the Data, Responsibly consortium (https://dataresponsibly.github.io/), and served on the New York City Automated Decision Systems Task Force, by appointment from Mayor de Blasio.
Julia developed and is teaching courses on Responsible Data Science at NYU
Christine Dunn is the Head of Market Strategy for Publisher Services at Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. In this role, she oversees Clarivate’s market and engagement strategies across the publishing community.
Prior to joining Clarivate, Christine led market strategy, international development, marketing and sales teams at Wiley and The MIT Press. Christine has been in the educational publishing and scholarly research and communication industry for over 20 years.
Christine earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from The Ohio State University. Whilst originally from the US, she has resided in the UK for the last 15 years.
Christine Dunn is the Head of Market Strategy for Publisher Services at Clarivate Analytics, home to the Web of Science Group and a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation. In this role, she oversees Clarivate’s market and engagement strategies across the publishing community.
Prior to joining Clarivate, Christine led market strategy, international development, marketing and sales teams at Wiley and The MIT Press and recently led market development and brand strategy at the digital educational start-up, Twig Education.
Christine earned a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MA from The Ohio State University. Whilst originally from the US, she has resided in the UK for the last 15 years.
Niko Pfund is Academic Publisher of Oxford University Press and President of OUP, USA.
He is the President-Elect of the Association of University Presses and serves on a number of boards and advisory groups, including those of the Digital Public Library of America, the literary magazine The Common, and the Eurasia Group Foundation.
Stephanie Veldman is Head of Open Research at Brill, where she is responsible for the development of models and services to grow Open Research in HSS. She has been involved with Brill’s Open Access program from the start. She also gained experience with institutional OA publishing at Utrecht University’s journal publishing program.
Back at Brill since 2018, she combines her experience with both commercial as well as not-for-profit publishing to move towards Open Access models suited to the unique and diverse HSS research landscape.
Ian Moss joins STM from his position as Director of Public Affairs at the BPI, the British Recorded Music Industry. Before this Ian spent 12 years in the UK Government and was a Senior Civil Servant in the Ministry of Justice as Director of Criminal Justice Strategy following roles as Head of Strategy in the Department for Work and Pensions, Principal Private Secretary at the Cabinet Office, Head of Technology and Innovation at HM Treasury and Head of Broadcasting Regulation at the Office of Telecommunications. Before becoming a Civil Servant he was a researcher in Parliament for a Government Minister and worked in the Office of Tony Blair MP during the 1997 election.
After graduation he was an elected officer in the National Union of Students in the UK, becoming a member of the National Executive for 3 years including 2 as Vice President. Ian has a BA (Hons) in History from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Business Economics from the University of Strathclyde.
Lucie is a PhD researcher at the University of Southampton in the Web and Internet Science research group (WAIS) and newspeak fellow.
Her research focus is on multilinguality in structured data, particularly in supporting low-resource languages in Wikipedia. She was part of the EU H2020 training network WDAqua, working with a group of international researchers on the challenges of question answering and a research fellow at TIB Hannover.
Previously, she worked at Wikimedia Deutschland in the Wikidata team and is still involved in Wikimedia projects, such as Scribe, a tool to support low-resource Wikipedia editors to create new articles.
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