STM People

Dominique de Roo is Vice President Corporate Strategy at De Gruyter Brill and responsible for the development and implementation of the overall company strategy. She leads the global Insights & Analysis, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance), and Communication & External Affairs teams of De Gruyter Brill. With over 17 years of experience in the industry,...

Rachel Scheer is External Communications Director, Academia & Government at Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. At Clarivate, she is responsible for delivering the global communications strategy for leading research, education and library solutions, including Web of Science™, ProQuest™, Ex Libris™ and Innovative™. Prior to joining Clarivate, Rachel worked for Springer Nature as...

Dr. Bishai joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in April 2020, with twenty years of experience in teaching, training, and writing on international law, identity and conflict, security sector governance, and preventing/countering violent extremism. Current work includes military justice reform, international legal norms for space, and the ethical, legal, and social implications of the...

Simon Holt is Head of Content Accessibility at Elsevier, and has worked in academic publishing for over 15 years. He is Director of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and a Trustee of sight-loss charity MyVision Oxfordshire. A visually impaired person himself, Simon feels strongly that equitable access to information is crucial to helping people with...

Anne Bergman has been the Director of FEP since 2004. She has a Master Degree in Medieval History and Graduated from the Brussels Free University and King’s College London in Comparative Copyright. She has been involved in accessibility projects and discussions for several years.

Cristina Mussinelli is Secretary General of Fondazione LIA, non-profit organization – set up by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) and the Italian Blind Union (UICI) – that promotes the culture of accessibility in the publishing field and has received numerous international awards as an innovative service of excellence. She is also co-chair of the W3C...

Melody (Zhuxin) Zhang is the Publisher at Wiley, managing a portfolio of scientific journals in the health sciences field. Her role involves spearheading the launch of new open access journals in close collaboration with influential local societies, hospitals and universities. She holds degrees from Renmin University of China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong...

Mitchell Bakos is an innovative technology leader with over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry.  He is an accomplished solutions architect supporting business strategy through innovative technology and strategic risk management.  In his current position at the American Chemical Society, he is responsible for the development and implementation of mission-critical products for their...

Rebecca Cook is Associate Director, Copyright and Permissions, at Wiley. Rebecca leads Wiley’s global team responsible for permissions, reprints, collective management organization alliances, and clinical outcome assessment licensing. Rebecca represents Wiley on a number of industry working groups, contributing to policy and discussions surrounding copyright, licensing strategy, transformative business models, and the future of rights...

Joslyn Chaiprasert-Paguio (she/her) is the Senior Acquisitions Editor responsible for science titles in Psychology and Translational Neurosciences at Elsevier, a leader in information and analytics for customers across the global research and health ecosystems. Her focus includes social, developmental, and clinical psychology as well as translational neuroscience including neurology and neurodegenerative diseases. Joslyn has over...