Silvia Serra

Silvia Serra is Head of Rights, Licensing and Permissions for Springer Nature. She has been in this position since February 2017 . Prior to this role, Silvia has worked for BioMed Central, PharmaVentures and Wolters Kluwer Health in Business Development and as a Director of Sales focusing on the pharmaceutical and academic markets both in Europe and in North America.

More recently, Silvia was Global Director of Rights, Licensing and Permissions at Wolters Kluwer Health responsible for the out-licensing of all the journals and books of the Medknow and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins imprints.

Silvia is located in the London office at Springer Nature. She is a native Italian but also speaks German and English at the native-level, she is fluent in French and learning Mandarin and taking on some Hindi. In 2015 Silvia completed with Merit the Diploma course at King’s College, London, in Copyright Law in the US, EU and UK.

Silvia is a member of the CLAC  (Copyright & Legal Affair) within the Scientific, Technical & Medical Association (STM), Co-Chair of the STM Permissions Group and a member of the Copyright Committee within the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).