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Mike leads Wiley’s work in implementing best practices and policy for integrity and ethics in Wiley’s Research journals portfolio; he champions quality and transparency in research publishing. At Wiley, Mike works alongside a diverse group of research integrity, operations, technology, and subject matter experts to resolve integrity and ethics concerns, incorporate best practices in screening,...

Part of the founding management team at Digital Science, as Director of Portfolio Development Steve has been involved in the majority of Digital Science’s portfolio investments, focussing on taking early-stage startup founders through product and business model validation to launch and growth. An entrepreneur himself, Steve has been involved in the startup space since the...

Sarah Jenkins is the Director for Research Integrity & Publishing Ethics at Elsevier.  Sarah and her team promote research integrity through policies, best practices, and education, support Elsevier’s Publishing Teams and Editors to investigate and resolve ethics cases and work with experts across Elsevier to build tools and develop processes to detect unethical practices during...

Tony Alves has worked in scholarly publishing since 1990, focusing on digital publishing, designing workflow management software, and online products. Tony is SVP of Product Management at HighWire Press, the platforms division of MPS Limited, overseeing a suite of platform products that address the entire scholarly publishing infrastructure, from workflow to hosting to analytics. Tony...

Elizabeth Moylan PhD, Senior Manager, Research Integrity & Strategy, Wiley Elizabeth is a member of Wiley’s Research Integrity team, where she supports colleagues and editors in implementing best practices and policy related to research integrity and publishing ethics. She also serves as a COPE Advisor. Elizabeth is also an advocate for open research practices that...

Dr. Sabina Alam is the Director of Publishing Ethics and Integrity at Taylor and Francis Group. After a research career in neuroscience, Sabina moved into scientific and medical publishing in 2008, working on open-access journals as well as a variety of peer review and publishing models at BMC journals (Springer Nature) and later at F1000...

Jana was the first Image Data Integrity Analyst at EMBO Press, before she joined the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) in 2017. She oversees pre-publication assessment and post-publication corrections for the 4 journals at FEBS Press, with an increasing focus on paper mills. She also founded her own business Image-Integrity in 2015 and has been a regular...

Molly Stech is STM’s General Legal Counsel. Previously, Molly worked for the U.S. Copyright Office and the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s copyright policy team. She has also been a consultant for WIPO and has been an adjunct professor of law at American University Washington College of Law and George Washington University Law School. She...

Sarah Phibbs serves as STM’s Director of Equity & Inclusion, working to foster global research equity by enabling reciprocal, diverse, and rich scholarly exchange. Sarah also works as a consultant for societies and publishers focusing on sustainable publishing, strategy, and innovation. Sarah facilitated the development of Research4Life’s new Strategic Plan and Theory of Change having...

Lei Shi is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tsinghua University Press(TUP), and the Director of both the Journal Publishing Center and Academic Publishing Center of TUP. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). He has been the Standing Board Member of the China Periodicals Association since 2018. Lei...