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Abby Clobridge is the managing director of and lead consultant at Clobridge Consulting, a boutique firm specializing in knowledge management, information management, and Open Access. Abby has worked with a wide range of organizations throughout the world, including UNESCO, the UN Development Programme, the World Bank; colleges and research universities; non-profit, inter-governmental, and multi-stakeholder organizations; the news media; and private sector companies. Prior to founding Clobridge Consulting, Abby was the Associate Director of Research & Knowledge Services at the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. Earlier in her career, she worked at Bucknell University where she managed their digital repository program and at CNN as an investigative researcher and news librarian. Abby has a master’s degree in Library Science from Florida State University and a bachelor’s degree in history from Tufts University. |
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A native of Santiago, Chile, Carlos is the World Bank Group Publisher and has over 25 years of experience in international professional and scholarly publishing. To support the institution’s role as global knowledge institution, the World Bank’s Publishing and Knowledge Division works with departments across the institution to develop and publish a range of products that cover the full spectrum of economic and social development and that are aimed at policymakers, academia, development practitioners, and other constituencies. In 2011 and 2012, Carlos led the transformation of the program into an Open Access publishing model, including implementation of an OA policy, Creative Commons licensing, and an OA repository for the Bank’s research and knowledge. Carlos has a degree in economics from The George Washington University and an MBA from Loyola University Maryland. |
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James Hardcastle is the Senior Research Executive at Taylor & Francis where he has worked for the previous 6 years. He specialises in external data analysis such as bibliometrics, citation analysis and altmetrics. |
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Dr. Lorlene Hoyt is the Director of Programs and Research for the Talloires Network – a global coalition of engaged universities – at Tufts University. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Boston’s New England Resource Center for Higher Education.From 2002-2011, she was an Assistant then Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the M.I.T. where she founded MIT@Lawrence, an award-winning city-campus partnership with the City of Lawrence, Massachusetts.Dr. Hoyt offers a new paradigm for graduate education in Transforming Cities and Minds Through the Scholarship of Engagement: Equity, Economy, and Environment, a book recently published by Vanderbilt University Press and the result of a collaborative thesis project with a group of six M.I.T. students.Her previous research has been published in academic journals including the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Economic Affairs, the International Journal of Public Administration, the Journal of Urban Technology, and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.She holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the State University of New York, and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University.For more information, see http://www.lorlenehoyt.com/ |
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Nell McCreadie has worked at SAGE for 14 years where she has undertaken a number of marketing roles both within the journals and library team. Having first joined the journals marketing team in 1999, Nell worked on a variety of social science and humanities academic titles, before moving onto work as part of the Library marketing team, where she is now responsible for the management of the team in EMEA. As Group Marketing Manager, Nell is responsible for working collaboratively on external outreach with library customers and developing effective marketing strategies for SAGE’s existing and forthcoming digital products to the library market.Prior to working at SAGE Nell worked for several other publishers including Blackwell Science and Harcourt. |
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Tomas completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he subsequently worked as a junior academic in the Department of Classics and Ancient History. He has extensive experience in research, teaching and higher education policy development and implementation, having held a variety of roles at the University of Sydney and, later, at the University of East London. He is currently Project Officer for the DRUSSA programme and is based in London at the Association of Commonwealth Universities. In this role he works as part of a team to provide support and expert advice for each of the 24 universities of the DRUSSA community, facilitates research uptake workshops for member universities and represents the programme at external events. |
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Susan Murray is the Managing Director of African Journals OnLine (AJOL) at www.ajol.info , a South African Non Profit Organisation providing access to the world’s largest online collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. She is also a Trustee of Umthathi Training Project, a local skills and development Non Profit in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) at www.doaj.org. Susan has a cum laude honours degree in development economics and her professional experience is in the non-profit sector in South Africa, and several other African countries. She has an abiding interest in the role that access to research outputs can play in economic development in low income and emerging economies, as well as the practicalities of attaining this. Susan has been an invited speaker and has presented papers at numerous African and international conferences. |