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Foundation Board

Our Foundation Board was established in September 2024 to provide community governance. Its role is to ensure that we operate in line with our Articles of Association and Danish law and regulations. The Board provides strategic and financial oversight to ensure that we fulfil our mission effectively. The Managing Director is accountable to the Board.

The Articles and terms of reference govern the Foundation Board's remit and activities.

Summaries of Foundation Board meetings are publicly available.

  • Mexico

    Ana María Cetto

    LatIndex

    Ana María holds a Master's degree in Biophysics from Harvard, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from UNAM. She does research on the foundations of quantum physics at the Institute of Physics and teaches at the Faculty of Sciences, UNAM. She is the former Director of the Faculty of Sciences, the Museum of Light and the Mexican Journal of Physics, OWSD vice-president, consultant to UNESCO for the World Conference on Science, member of the UNU Governing Board, ISC Secretary General and President of the Mexican Physical Society (SMF). Ana María founded LATINDEX, over which she presides, in addition to holding the UNESCO Chair on Science Diplomacy and Heritage, and chairing the UNESCO Global Open Science Steering Committee. She is Mexico's Woman of the Year 2003 and has received, among others, the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 2023 and the Oganesson Prize in 2024. She is also co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the Executive Committee of the Pugwash Conferences and of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize as IAEA's Deputy Director General.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

  • United Kingdom

    David Prosser (Chair)

    Research Libraries UK

    Since March 2010, David has been the Executive Director of RLUK, the representative body for the UK and Ireland's leading research libraries. Before moving to RLUK, he was, from 2002, the founding Director of SPARC Europe, an alliance of over 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries advocating new models of scholarly communication. Previously, he spent ten years in STM journal publishing for Oxford University Press and Elsevier Science. During this time, he was involved in all aspects of publishing, from production to editorial and financial management of journals. Before becoming a publisher, he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

  • Greece

    Giannis Tsakonas

    University of Patras

    Giannis is Director of the Library & Information Center, University of Patras, Greece. He is Vice President of LIBER and a member of the organisation's Executive Board. He served on the Board of Directors of HEAL-Link, the consortium of Greek academic libraries, from 2016 to 2022. From 2016 to 2019, he was appointed Vice President of the Hellenic General Council of Libraries, a body of the Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, monitoring the operation of Greek public libraries. He is also a member of the Managing Committee of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme. He has a PhD in information science. In his free time, he cooks, runs and goes to concerts.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

  • The Netherlands

    Hans de Jonge

    Dutch Research Council NWO

    Hans is the director of Open Science NL, the national funding program for Open Science in the Netherlands and part of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Hans has worked at NWO, overseeing its Open Science policies since 2018. Before NWO, Hans worked as program manager at the academic affairs unit of Utrecht University and at the Dutch Association of Universities (UNL), where he headed the research policy unit. Hans is a historian by training, and he specialised in the history of science.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

  • Denmark

    Lars Bjørnshauge

    DOAJ

    Lars is the Director of Infrastructure Services for Open Access C.I.C (www.is4oa.org) and Founder of DOAJ. He was the Managing Director of DOAJ until 2022, when he retired. Previously, he was the Deputy Director and Acting Director for the Technical Information Centre of Denmark at the Technical University of Denmark. He was the Director of Libraries at Lund University in Sweden and the Director of SPARC Europe. In addition to founding DOAJ, he has co-founded OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories), DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), and Think.Check.Submit.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

  • South Africa

    Susan Veldsman

    Academy of Sciences in South Africa

    Susan is Director of the Scholarly Publication Unit at the Academy of Sciences in South Africa. She is responsible for driving the Open Science agenda, specifically to raise the visibility, discoverability and accessibility of South African scholarly journals, improve the quality of SA research output, and support the development of policy frameworks to facilitate optimal use and access to publicly-funded research. In 2017, Susan received the Electronic Publishing Trust (EPT) award for her outstanding contribution to the promotion of Open Access in Developing Countries. Recently, she was the Co-chair of the IAP Report on 'Combatting Predatory Journals and Conferences', which was launched on the 16th March 2022. She also received special recognition for her role in establishing the SciELO SA platform in South Africa at the most recent SciELO 25 years celebrations.

    Conflict of interest statement(s):

Advisory Board

The Foundation Board is supported by an Advisory Board, nominated by the community. The Foundation Board appoints members of the Advisory Board, ensuring representation from DOAJ's global stakeholder groups. The Chair of the Advisory Board is a member of the Foundation Board. Terms of reference govern the Advisory Board's remit. Its members provide input to both the Foundation Board and the DOAJ Team, helping to guide our strategic direction and ensure that our services continue to meet the needs of the global scholarly communication community. Conflict of interest statements for each member are available.

  • United Kingdom

    Andrea Chiarelli

    Research Consulting Ltd.

  • Brazil

    Andrea Vieira

    CAPES

  • Germany

    André Schüller-Zwierlein

    Regensburg University Library

  • Mexico

    Arturo Garduño-Magaña

    LA Referencia

  • USA

    Colleen Cressman

    Harvard Library

  • United Arab Emirates

    Emily Choynowski

    Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) and Knowledge E

  • China

    Emmie Yang

    IOP Publishing

  • Argentina

    Federico Vasen

    Universidad de Buenos Aires

  • Colombia

    Heiner Mercado Percia

    Journals & Authors - Universidad EAFIT

  • United Kingdom

    Ian Caswell

    UCL Press

  • USA

    Izuchukwu Azuka Okafor

    Umass Chan Medical School

  • Kenya

    Johanssen Obanda

    Crossref

  • USA

    Jon Speilburg

    SPIE

  • Costa Rica

    Jorge Polanco Cortés

    Universidad de Costa Rica

  • USA

    Justin Gonder

    California Digital Library

  • China

    Kunhua Zhao

    National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • China

    Lvxiang (Roger) Deng

    Central South University

  • Ghana

    Mac-Anthony Cobblah

    University of Cape Coast and CARLIGH

  • Canada

    Marie-Eve Dugas

    Érudit

  • USA

    Melissa Chim

    Excelsior University

  • Canada

    Michael Donaldson

    Canadian Science Publishing

  • Iran

    Rasoul Zavaraqi

    University of Tabriz

  • Spain

    Remedios Melero

    Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)

  • Portugal

    Sandra F. Gomes

    Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto (FMUP)

  • India

    Santosh C Hulagabali

    Central University of Haryana, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India

  • Norway

    Trude Eikebrokk

    SINTEF

  • Nigeria

    Umar Ahmad

    Sa'adu Zungur University, Bauchi State/Africa CDC