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Key topics: Peer review, publishing ethics, editorial standards and practices, copyright, intellectual property, industry initiatives

Mayur Amin, Senior Vice President of Research & Academic Relations

Areas of Expertise: Impact factors; the role of published papers in the research assessment exercise; journal pricing 

Mayur has conducted many studies on the scientific publishing system, and on evidence-based techniques for measuring both its impact and understanding the role of publishing on research and teaching. His work also seeks to understand how scientific publishing can better meet the differing expectations of researchers, authors and academics  - issues on which he has published articles in specialist journals and delivered conference presentations. Full Profile

Nick Fowler, Director of Strategy

Areas of Expertise: Electronic pricing, ‘Open Access’, e-Health strategies, search, Internet-based business models

Nick is responsible for strategy, market and competitor analysis, and strategic projects, e.g. so-called open access models. He assembles and leads teams working on key issues facing both the company and the industry as a whole. These include e-pricing, ‘open access’ and alternative scientific publishing models, e-Health information delivery strategies, search, and the development of internet-based business.  He has acted as a spokesperson for Elsevier on these issues. Full Profile

Lynne Herndon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cell Press

Areas of Expertise: Publishing innovation and user-based business models

As President and CEO of Cell Press, Lynne has successfully grown the reputation and size of the division through bold editorial and commercial strategies, as well as organic product development. Under Lynne’s guidance,   Cell Press has demonstrated creativity and leadership on different approaches to publishing and product innovation—providing far-reaching impact within Elsevier and the publishing community. Full Profile

Emilie Marcus, VP, Content Development & Editor-in-Chief of Cell Press

Area of Expertise: Publishing in the Life Sciences

Emilie has been a major contributor to debates on issues facing scientific publishing. She has served as a panellist on open debates about alternative publishing models at Harvard and Brandeis Universities and on the publishing ethics panel at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the   Council of Science Editors. She also is frequently asked to give talks at universities on the editorial process. She championed a new policy, launched in 2005, to make all content in the   Cell Press journals– back to 1995– freely available online 12 months after publication. Full Profile

Adrian Mulligan, Associate Director Research & Academic Relations

Areas of Expertise: peer review, market research in scholarly publishing

Adrian has a range of experience having worked in publishing for 10 years. During the last 6 years his position in research has given him an unique opportunity to study the scholarly community. He has conducted research into author motivations and behaviour, peer review and most recently completed a study examining the core trends in scholarly publishing. He has presented on these topics at various conferences including the 2006 STM conferences held in Budapest and Frankfurt, the ICSTI Public Conference, Nancy France 2007. Full Profile

Andrew Plume, Associate Director – Scientometrics & Market Analysis

Areas of Expertise: Impact Factors and scientometrics; the role of the journal in scholarly communication; accessibility of literature.

Dr Andrew Plume is Associate Director – Scientometrics & Market Analysis in Research & Academic Relations at Elsevier, specializing in scientometrics (the scientific qualification and analysis of science). Through accumulating a broad spectrum of data that ranges from specific primary sources such as authors and single articles to the broadest data resources generated from countries and entire subject domains, Andrew studies information flows in the scholarly literature by analyzing patterns of publications and citations. His particular interest lies in the use (and abuse) of the Impact Factor and the emergence of alternative metrics for journal evaluation. Andrew frequently presents these topics, among others, to journal editors, learned and scholarly societies, and the publishing community. Full Profile

Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President/General Counsel

Areas of expertise: Publishing ethics, copyright, intellectual property, access and distribution licensing  

A frequent speaker on copyright and public policy issues at publishing and scientific conferences, Mark heads up Elsevier‘s global legal department of lawyers which addresses corporate organization and compliance, mergers, acquisitions, and copyright policy and enforcement. Mark is the chair of the Copyright Committee of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (  STM) and a member of the   Copyright Committee of the Association of American Publishers. Full Profile

Martin Tanke, Managing Director S&T Journal Publishing

Areas of Expertise: Trends, future and value of STM journal publishing, the role of peer review, Elsevier’s EES system and the development of electronic databases

With 25 years at Elsevier, Martin Tanke has experienced the full cycle of STM publishing from scientist to publisher and senior manager. He has witnessed first hand the industry’s migration from print to electronic and from a reader’s to a creator’s market where the exchange of information now occurs well in advance of final publication.  Full Profile

David Tempest, Deputy Director of Universal Sustainable Research Access

Areas of Expertise: Peer review, impact factors, usage, and knowledge management

David Tempest has worked in several different positions for Elsevier including Journals Editorial and Marketing, but has spent the majority of his career specialising in Scientometrics - (the study of science, economics and bibliometrics) and knowledge management. This has given him a unique opportunity to study the scholarly community and to work on the strategy of journals in many different fields. Full Profile

Philippe Terheggen, Senior Vice-President Physical Sciences

Areas of Expertise: Processes of publishing; EES, working with editors, authors and reviewers to add value to the peer review process

Phillipe has served in each of Elsevier’s three divisions worldwide, in a variety of publishing, marketing, operations and product innovation roles. As a former scientist, he has an in-depth knowledge of the academic world and actively seeks to build relationships with Elsevier’s external editors, authors and reviewers.
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Hugo Zhang, CEO, S&T China

Areas of Expertise: STM Publishing in China

Hugo was appointed Elsevier's Managing Director of Science & Technology in China in September of 2008. He brings a wealth of experience in strategic planning, publishing, and publicity from both within and outside of the publishing industry. Prior to joining Elsevier in 2007 as Business Development and Marketing Director responsible for S&T books sales and business development in greater China and Korea, Hugo held diverse management roles within the Chinese Central Government including the Director of Book Publishing Policy Programs in the Publicity Department. Full Profile

Michiel Kolman, Senior Vice President, Global Academic Relations

Areas of Expertise: Partnering with academia, research performance analysis, global research trends, research management, astrophysics, publishing industry trends and partnerships

Michiel Kolman is Senior Vice President at Elsevier and heads a global academic relations team dedicated to engaging in dialogue with key stakeholders in the academic community in Europe, Asia and North America: academies of science, research councils and university leaders. Since joining Elsevier in 1995, he has served in a range of core publishing positions, including Publishing Director, during which he launched one of the first on-line journals in the industry: New Astronomy.   Full Profile

David Ruth, Senior Vice President Global Communications and the Executive Director of the Elsevier Foundation

Areas of Expertise: Publishing industry trends and partnerships, Women in Science, Research access in the developing world, Corporate Responsibility, Universal Access

David Ruth is responsible for Elsevier’s external and internal communications and corporate responsibility programs worldwide. He has led the development of the   Elsevier Foundation’s New Scholars program which supports programs to advance and expand the participation of women in science, health and technology. He has also championed   Research4Life as the central element in Elsevier’s Corporate Responsibility program. The Elsevier Foundation's   Innovative Libraries program also supports capacity-building projects in the fields of science, technology and medicine — through training, education; infrastructure digitization and preservation of information.   Full Profile 

Alicia Wise, Director of Universal Access

Areas of expertise: access, accessibility, copyright, digital libraries, digital preservation, e-publishing, licensing, open access, open standards, rights management in the digital age, universal access

Alicia holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and worked as an academic archaeologist.  Next she joined the UK Joint Information Systems Committee to manage national negotiations for access to a broad array of intellectual property and then to direct innovation programs to stimulate the creative use of information technology in universities and colleges.  Alicia then moved to the publishing industry as Chief Executive of the Publishers Licensing Society which is a not-for-profit owned by publishing trade bodies to oversee collective licensing arrangements for UK publishers.  From that position she was also seconded to serve as Head of Digital Publishing at The Publishers Association (PA).   Full Profile 

Suzanne BeDell, Managing Director Science & Technology Books

Areas of expertise: STM Publishing industry trends, print and electronic delivery

Suzanne BeDell joined Elsevier as Managing Director, Science & Technology Books in September, 2010. She has been a book publishing and information industry leader for almost 30 years focusing on the intersection of print and electronic delivery for much of her career.   Full Profile