Christine Lamb is the director of corporate marketing for NEJM Group, which includes the New England Journal of Medicine and a portfolio of other health care information products. She is responsible for global brand strategy, content development and marketing, interactive design, and communications and media relations. She also leads an NEJM Group publishing project in China, NEJM Yi Xue Qian Yan.
Previously, Christine held executive positions in editorial, marketing, and business development with MIT Press, Little, Brown and several innovative content delivery and technology start-ups with headquarters outside the U.S. Throughout, she built leading brands for high-value content in science, technology, medicine, business and academic research to address the changing needs of individuals, libraries and corporations in global markets.
Christine has been active in advancing the scholarly publishing profession. For over a decade, she served as a committee chair, on the board of directors, and as president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. She was a member of the Association of American Publishers/Professional and Scholarly Publishing Journals Committee where she helped develop the Journals Publishing Bootcamp and was the founding chair of the Professional Development Committee. She has been a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Christine graduated from Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio with a BA in Literature and Languages and from Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts with an MS in Communications Management.
Hiromitsu (Hiro) Urakami is Editorial Developmental Manager for the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) based in Tokyo, Japan. He also holds a position as a Manager for Royal Society of Chemistry Japan KK. He is responsible for the business strategy, vision, and implementation plan for RSC activities in Japan, as well as product strategies for South Korea.
Before joining the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2013, he was a research scientist at Hitachi Chemical Co. Ltd. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine in 2010 and also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces until 2012.
Alexa is the Journals Marketing Manager at the University of Illinois Press. She is mission and metrics driven who is passionate about collaboration, innovation, and excellence.
Perpetually curious about information, she uses data in creative ways to gain new insights about user constituencies and ways to leverage them into successful and responsible marketing campaigns.
She holds an BA from St. Lawrence University, an MFA from Purdue University, and has worked as a marketer in various fields including small business marketing, commercial agriculture, and scholarly communications.
Victoria (Torie) Eva serves as Policy Director in the Access and Policy team at Elsevier, responsible for oversight, coordination and development of policy and legislative issues related to Open Science. Victoria covers outreach to key policy contacts, and represents Elsevier’s positioning on Open Science.
Prior to her role at Elsevier, Victoria was Global Policy Manager at education publisher Pearson, responsible for monitoring and risk-mitigation of policy issues covering copyright and IP, data protection and accessibility. Victoria has also worked for the UK trade body The Publishers Association as Head of Communications.
Frank Vrancken Peeters joined Springer Nature in 2017 as Chief Commercial Officer and became CEO in September 2019.
He has spent more than 25 years in the media and publishing sectors, with leadership roles across a range of strategic and delivery business functions in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer contexts.
Frank has previously had senior positions at: Wolters Kluwer, where he was Regional Managing Director, Legal and Regulatory, Western Europe; at Infinitas Learning, where he was Chief Operating Officer; and Elsevier Science, where he served as MD Government and Academic Markets, MD ScienceDirect and MD Global Sales, in each case building and growing significant-scale, complex international businesses.
Frank holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Wei Yang was born in 1954 in Beijing. He received his Ph.D. degree from Brown University, USA in 1985. Currently, he is a Professor of Zhejiang University, a Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Head of Technological Science, a Fellow and the Treasure of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), a Foreign Member of National Academy of Engineering (USA), and the President of CSTAM. He also serves as an Advisor and the Chairman of the Advisory Council of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), an Advisor of Springer-Nature, and the Chair of the China Academic Committee of Elsevier. Received Honorary Doctor degrees from Brown University, Northwest University, University of Bristol, Aristotle University, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Prof. Yang has worked in fracture mechanics, meso and nano mechanics, structures of aerospace vehicles, and X-mechanics. He served as one of the eight Bureau Members of IUTAM, and as the Chair of WP7. He was a Professor of Tsinghua University, and served as the Chair of University Academic Committee. He served as Director of the Office of Academic Degrees Committee under State Council of China (2004-2006). He was the President of Zhejiang University (2006-2013), and the President of National Natural Science Foundation of China (2013-2018). His research achievements won him the W.T. Koiter Medal and Calvin Rice Award from ASME, and the Eric Reissner Medal from ICCES.
Chris Reid is the Director for Product and Publishing Development for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, home of the Science Family of Journals, based in Washington DC. With close to 20 years experience in STM publishing, Chris leads the product management and development functions within Science, including publishing technology, as well as leading the growing Science Partner Journal program, Science’s partner publishing program.
Prior to this role, Chris was previously an Executive Publisher, STM Journals at Oxford University Press, New York. He led society partnerships and acquisitions for the US, including partnering with a wide range of societies looking to work with a mission focused non-profit. Prior to his role in OUP’s New York office, Chris work in Oxford in both medical journal and book programs, working to grow OUP’s footprint in both. He has a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Durham.
Chris is currently a member of the STM Membership committee and the SSP Career Development committee as well as sitting on the CSE International Advisory Board, the Atypon Publisher Advisory Board, and the George Washington Publishing Advisory Board. He is also a speaker and panelist at industry meetings.
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Interested to research in areas of library leadership, information literacy pedagogy, instructional design and soft skills development
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Professor Jian Ma is a professor at City University of Hong Kong and the founder of CITINet Systems Ltd. with IRISaaS/ScholarMate platforms.
He has extensive experience working with funding organizations to solve their workflow and efficiency challenges.
An Experienced Service and Project Leader
Committed to quality library support to university teaching, research and students’ learning
A strategic planner with vision
Demonstrated quality performance in project planning, delivery and assessment
An Engaging Trainer and Presenter
Passionate to share experience and ideas in seminars, conferences and alike
Proficient in designing and conducting staff and students training program
Oriented to apply instructional design in teaching and training
An Effective Communicator
Fluent written and oral communication in English and Chinese
An empathetic, active listener
Efficient in both independent and collaborative environment
An Inquisitive Researcher
Interested to research in areas of library leadership, information literacy pedagogy, instructional design and soft skills development
Motivated for continuous personal development and performance improvement
Supportive for librarians’ continuing professional development
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