STM People

Bill Deluise is with Wiley as Corporate Vice President for ESG. In this role, Bill leads the development of our ESG strategy and oversees activity across the organization to ensure its execution. He’s a passionate advocate for publishing’s role in advancing knowledge to improve society and responsible for leading Wiley’s social and environmental impact agendas. Bill...

Meagan Phelan is the Communications Director for the Science family of journals, where she oversees efforts to support accurate communication of Science family journal content among reporters worldwide. In this role, she’s been able to help innovate how science communication is done in response to key issues, including related to science integrity and science policy. Prior to joining...

Tom Demeranville is Product Director at ORCID.  He has been helping to build shared scholarly communications infrastructure for the past 20 years.

Tim Kersjes is the Head of Research Integrity, Resolutions at Springer Nature. The Resolutions team consists of highly committed research integrity expects who support in-house editors and Editors-in-Chief in handling and resolving all types of research integrity and publication ethics issues. The cases vary from plagiarism and authorship disputes to peer review manipulation, medical-ethical concerns,...

Richard Northover is a product consultant specialising in identity and privacy. He draws on 20 years’ experience as a developer and product manager to help organisations have simple, consistent, and trusted relationships with their users. Previously he has worked as Product Director for Identity and Access at Elsevier and as a Service Owner, Product Manager,...

Sameer Puri is STM’s India Consultant since July 2023. Based in Delhi, India, he acts as the primary point of contact as the STM Secretariat for the India Chapter and provides support for engagement with key stakeholders in India. He coordinates closely with STM’s strategic committees and coordinates additional STM initiatives, providing insights from India....

Prabu Desikan, currently the Regional Director (South Asia) for IOP Publishing, has extensive global experience working in Sales & Business Development roles with leading publishers like Proquest/Bowker, Wiley etc. An Engineer by background, and an MBA, his work has enabled him to work with libraries in the US, Canada, Middle East, and India, for over...

Leila Jones serves as STM’s Chief Operating Officer — providing operational leadership and cross-functional coordination across STM. She plays a key role in driving progress on strategic programmes and ensuring the seamless execution of STM’s activities. Leila has been an integral part of STM as the Director of Strategic Programmes, where she facilitated the delivery...

Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy) with a background in international economics. However, she later shifted her research focus to corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, paper mills, and predatory and hijacked journals. Her research not only involves...

Amanda Sulicz is the Associate Program Manager, Publishing Ethics at IEEE. In this role, Amanda is responsible for upholding the integrity of the scholarly record by assisting with investigations and working with IEEE’s volunteers to resolve ethics and plagiarism allegations. Prior to joining IEEE in 2023, Amanda started her publishing career in 2019 at AIP...