As University Librarian I am responsible for strategic leadership of CUHK Library. This includes policy, direction, financial management and overall responsibility for the library staff who work across our seven libraries.
I am advised by my team of senior librarians and am committed to working in partnership with CUHK students, faculty and others to ensure CUHK Library continues as a leading research library in East Asia.
Mr. Zhu Qiang is currently the Director of the Library, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University.
He graduated from the Department of Library Science, Peking University in 1982, had been a visiting scholar in the East Asia & Pacific Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign （Sept. 1994 – July 1995）.
He had worked at Peking University for 36 years and been at various positions, such as the Library Director of Peking University (Jan. 2008-July 2017), the Deputy Director of the Administrative Center, China Academic Library & Information System (CALIS, 1996-2017), and the Director of the Administrative Center, China Academic Social Sciences and Humanities Library (CASHL, 2007-2017).
He’s also a Vice President of Library Society of China and the Chair of Academic Library Branch (2009-2018); had been Governing Board member, IFLA (2009-2011); Member, FAIFE Committee, IFLA (2009-2017). He has been the Editor in Chief of Academic Libraries Journal since 1999, and many other Editorial Board Members of library journals. He was the Chair of National Library and Information Committee for Universities and Colleges under the Ministry of Education of China (2008-2018).
Mr. Zhu has published over 80 papers in the areas of academic library management, library automation and resource-sharing system.
Jay is currently VP – Research Technology at Wiley, having held several positions within the technology organization in his 10 year career there. He leads teams based in the USA, UK and Russia responsible for delivering customer-facing applications to creators and consumer of research.
Jay was an early adopter of agile methodologies for software development and introduced Kanban and the Scaled Agile Framework into Wiley.
Prior to joining Wiley Jay led application development at several B2B publishers around the UK.
Anil Chandy is VP, Major Reference Works & Textbooks publishing at Springer Nature and is Managing Director of Springer Nature Singapore.
Anil joined Springer in 2007 to set up the first editorial team for the organization in Asia (outside of Japan) and was responsible for expanding the Major Reference Works publishing portfolio across Asia before taking up responsibility for the global program in 2014. Currently the reference works program encompasses all of Springer Nature’s publishing disciplines that are under the Springer and Palgrave Macmillan imprints with an editorial team based in New York, London, Heidelberg, New Delhi, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore.
Anil is also responsible for technology and data teams involved in customized software development and workflow solutions for reference works and textbooks. He serves as the member for Asia for Springer Nature’s Global Diversity & Inclusion Council. Outside of Springer Nature, he is a publisher representative and Board Member of CLASS (the Copyright and Licensing Administration Society of Singapore) and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors. Anil is an alumni of Sage, OUP and Deloitte Consulting.
Joyce Lorigan serves as Group Head of Corporate Affairs at Springer Nature and is a member of the company’s Executive Team. She joined Macmillan Science and Education as Global Communications Director in 2012 and following its merger with Springer, became Executive Vice President of Communications. She now heads a global team of communications, brand and government affairs professionals and leads the company’s sustainability programme. At STM, she chaired the STM Strategic Communication Committee and serves on the Open Research Committee.
Joyce has a strong track record of collaboration and engagement and believes in the power of bringing people together to influence change. She is an advocate for sustainability and the critical role that research and knowledge play in solving the urgent challenges facing the world. Including her time in research publishing, Joyce has spent more than 25 years in communications. Recent London-based roles include Vice President Global Communications of FTSE 100 company Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG plc) and Vice President Corporate Communications for the Walt Disney group of companies in EMEA. Joyce also spent three years as Director of Alliance Marketing for EuroDisney SCA based in Paris. A history graduate from the University of Leeds, Joyce chaired the Board of London-based business partnership Urban Partners from 2014-2017 and is currently a Board member of leading UK conservation charity, the Marine Conservation Society.
Yasushi Ogasaka is Director of the Department for Information Infrastructure at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), where he is responsible for information services such as open-access journal platform (J-STAGE) and researcher database (researchmap). He is also responsible for development and implementation of policy on open access to funded research article and data.
Yasushi Ogasaka joined JST in 2009. He has been working on the management of several public funding programs such as Strategic Basic Sciences Programs (ERATO, CREST, PRESTO), Technology Transfer Program and Special Program for Regenerative medicine using iPS cells, before he was appointed to the present position in 2015.
Before joining JST, Yasushi Ogasaka was Assistant Professor of Nagoya University, Japan. His research area was high energy astrophysics, in particular investigation of the origin of the Cosmic X-ray Background Radiation and development of X-ray telescopes. Prior to his academic career, he graduated from Gakushuin University, Tokyo Japan and received PhD. in physics in 1996.
J-STAGE: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse
researchmap: http://researchmap.jp/
JST Open Science Policy: http://www.jst.go.jp/EN/about/openscience/index.html
Alice Hall is a Journals Publisher at CSIRO Publishing, within Australia’s national science agency. As Publisher her role focuses on overseeing a portfolio of journals across a wide range of scientific disciplines, including agriculture, plant and animal sciences, and the environment. She is responsible for managing a team of Editorial Assistants and working to strengthen the quality of peer review across the journals programme.
Dr. Yuko Harayama is the former Executive Member of the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office of Japan. She is the former Deputy Director of the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD.
She is a Legion D’Honneur recipient (Chevalier), and was awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel. Previously, she was Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Graduate School of Engineering of Tohoku University.
She holds a Ph.D. in education sciences and a Ph.D. in economics, both from the University of Geneva.
Chai Zhao joined KeAi Publishing (a joint-venture between Elsevier and China Science Publishing & Media) in March 2014 and took the role of Vice General Manager on 2017.
She has been working in the journal publishing industry for 12 years. Before joining KeAi, she worked as a Managing Editor to lead the two Monthly journals over 8 years.
She holds a PhD degree from Peking University in Pure Mathematics.
Todd Toler is Vice President, Product Strategy & Partnerships. In this role, Todd develops and implements business and product strategies across the portfolio of Wiley’s scientific & scholarly publishing activities.
Todd focuses on bringing integrated digital tools and services to market that support researchers, and closely follows emerging market needs, trends, and opportunities for innovation.
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