Jasmine Wallace is the Peer Review Manager at the American Society for Microbiology. She is responsible for ensuring peer review practices and policies are up-to-date and applied consistently across their journals.
Jasmine obtained her master’s degree in Publishing from George Washington University. She later joined the staff at George Washington University as a Teaching Assistant, where she helps facilitate a course on Editing Books, Journals, and other Products.
Jasmine currently serves as Co-Chair of the Professional Development Committee for the Council of Science Editors, where she helps to lead programs and services that foster the career growth of both local and global members. She is the newest contributor for the Scholarly Kitchen.
John W. Warren (he/his), Director and Associate Professor, Master of Professional Studies in Publishing, George Washington University, formerly held the positions of director of the George Mason University Press; marketing and sales director at Georgetown University Press; and director of marketing, publications at the RAND Corporation.
He has a master’s in international management from the School of Public Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a classical guitarist and composer and writes about guitar technique, composition, and improvisation for Classical Guitar and Acoustic Guitar magazines. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, John is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has authored several articles on digital publishing and other topics. He is publisher of the new GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing.
Philip V. DiVietro is Managing Director, Publishing, for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
He is responsible for providing strategic focus and business operations management of the Society’s portfolio of technical journals, books, conference proceedings and the ASME Digital Collection platform.
Philip also has considerable experience with engineering standards and also manages the publishing group that supports the ASME standards business. He has been and is still active in several associations, including CESSE, SSP, AAP as well as STM.
Priya Arora currently heads the product and digital strategy for Wolters Kluwer Health’s institutional platform. In her current role she is responsible for a portfolio of digital solutions, content, and services, that serve clinicians, researchers, educators and society members working in hospitals and medical schools in the United States and internationally. In her 12 years at Wolters Kluwer Health, she has successfully executed the digital transformation of content for the organization, and continues to lead the strategy to build expert solutions that serve specific use cases across a diverse customer base.
Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer Health in 2007, Priya worked for various other industry leaders including Gate Group Inc. where she led the product and Go-To-Market strategy and built various solutions to boost analytics and engagement.
With a passion for data and analytics, she pursued her undergraduate in Statistics from University of Delhi, India and an MS in Statistics from the University of Akron, Ohio. She recently graduated with an Executive MBA in Marketing from Rutgers Business School and is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.
Philippa J. Benson received her Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). In her doctoral work, she studied the cognitive processes of reading, writing, and information design by both native and non-native speakers of English, with a focus on how adults create and revise scientific and technical texts. She has published extensively on topics related to scientific and technical writing.
Dr. Benson is currently the Managing Editor of Science Advances, the online expansion of Science magazine, the first high impact open access publication from AAAS. She regularly travels internationally lecturing at top universities and research centers about effective technical communication and scientific publishing. Over the past 25 years, she has developed and taught a wide array of courses in science writing and technical communication at institutions including Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown University, University of Pittsburgh, the National Institutes of Health, and the United Nations. She also led PJB Consulting, a firm with diverse international clients involved in STM publishing including the PLOS suite of journals, the United Nations, and the American Society for Nutrition.
In 2013, Dr. Benson and her colleague Dr. Sue Silver published What Editors Want: An Author’s Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing (U. Chicago Press). What Editors Want reviews what editors are looking for when considering new submissions and examines the publication process in a logical sequence to reveal the reasoning behind the many requirements that journals and their Editors have. The book discusses ethical issues and trends related to publishing technologies and intellectual property rights and includes sidebar essays by editors and managers of some of the world’s leading scientific publishers, including Science, PNAS, and PLoS.
Max Gabriel joined Taylor & Francis Group as Chief Digital Officer in 2015. In this role, he is responsible
for technology strategy, delivery and operations for the group.
Prior to joining Taylor & Francis, Max was CTO of Pearson India and Africa where he was responsible
for digital transformation of these markets and successfully launched Pearson’s first tablet based
learning product in India.
Before joining Pearson, in his 20 years of progressive career, Max held senior technology leadership
roles at Global Industry leaders such as Diageo, Pfizer, and JP Morgan Chase. During his multi industry
career, he worked in multiple regions and has great appreciation for multi-cultural diversity.
During his time at Diageo, Max led the Global Marketing Automation program to deliver a cross brand
consumer engagement platform. At Pfizer, as Chief Enterprise Architect, he led the strategy and
architecture for a sales transformation program to implement a multi-channel customer centric sales
model in North America.
Max started his career as a programmer in financial services industry after completing his B.S
computer science from M.S University, India. Max actively mentors and advises several tech start-ups
in the media and education domain.
Dr. Tae-Sul Seo is the director of Open Access Center of Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). He was awarded a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). He joined KISTI in 1986 and involved in many projects related to journal publishing and Korean journal databases such as KoreaScience (www.koreascience.kr) and KPubS (www.kpubs.org). He is in charge of development of open access repository, operation of Korean Electronic Site License Initiative (KESLI), and Korean NCP of SCOAP3.
He is a co-associate editor of Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice (JISTaP) published by KISTI, the chairperson of Committee on Information Management of Korean Council of Science Editors (KCSE), and the head of Data Management and Interchange Committee (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32) of Korea. Previously, he was the treasurer of International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI).
Deborah Wyatt has over fifteen years’ experience working in the Asia-Pacific region with Wiley’s Society partners, business leaders and experts across all disciplines in the health, social, life and physical sciences to produce high-quality peer-reviewed journals and magazines.
In her role as Director of Society Publishing, Asia-Pacific, Deborah oversees publication of over 150 peer-reviewed journals, manages a team of publishers across the region, and works on industry-wide initiatives to drive best practice publishing, discoverability and industry cooperation.
Andrea Macaluso has over 20 years of experience in STEM publishing as a Publishing Manager, Commissioning Editor, Editorial Director, and Society Liaison. She is Director, Strategic Partnerships and Global Nature Partner Journals at Nature Research, based in Springer Nature’s One New York Plaza location.
Andrea has worked at Springer Nature for 7 years where she helped launch the Nature Partner Journals brand in the US and was the Editorial Director for Life Science and Biomedicine at Springer Science + Business Media, overseeing the US-based book and journal portfolio, where she spent 14 years prior to joining Nature Research.
She is responsible for business development and partner relations for the global Nature Partner Journals (NPJs) brand and works closely with funding agencies, scientific foundations, member organizations and institutions across the US to engage in conversations regarding open research, open data, and to help find solutions to the challenges they face in an ever changing industry.
Keith Webster was appointed Dean of University Libraries at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2013 and was additionally appointed as Director of Emerging and Integrative Media Initiatives in July 2015. He also has a courtesy academic appointment at the University’s H. John Heinz III College. Previously, Keith was Vice President and Director of Academic Relations and Strategy for the global publishing company John Wiley and Sons. He was formerly Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Queensland in Australia, leading one of the largest university and hospital library services in the southern hemisphere. Earlier positions include University Librarian at Victoria University in New Zealand, Head of Information Policy at HM Treasury, London, and Director of Information Services at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.
Keith has held professorships in information science at Victoria University of Wellington and City University, London. He is a Chartered Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (UK), and has served on government advisory boards, journal editorial boards, and as an officer in professional and learned societies around the world. In 2018 he was elected as Chair of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO).
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