Agenda

Dr. Marielza Oliveira is from Brazil serves as the Director for Partnership and Operational Programme Monitoring of the Communication and Information Sector in Paris. With over 24 years of experience Dr. Oliveira has previously worked for the UNDP Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva (Switzerland), and at the UNDP Executive Office in New York.
 

As Head, Global Stakeholder Engagement at Cactus Communications, Dr. Samulack is actively involved in supporting the publication needs of the academic and publishing communities, managing workflows across global time zones, and raising the level of awareness and professionalism of good publication practices, worldwide. In his research career he completed his Ph.D. in medical physiology at McGill University (Montreal), held a number of postdoctoral positions, specialized in the neurosciences, and participated in pioneering work surrounding primate hand transplantation. As such, he understands the logistics of the research process, scholarly publishing, peer review, as well as the global benefits of “open” research communication.

Glenn Hampson is the founder and director of the Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI), a 10-year-long UN-sponsored effort whose goal is to build an inclusive, evidence-based global policy framework for the future of open research. Mr. Hampson’s career includes 35 years of communication and publishing leadership experience in research, academia, government, policy, and private industry. Mr. Hampson holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from American University in Washington DC.

Dr Arianna Becerril García is the Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) of Mexico. She holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. And she holds a BA in Computer Engineering, UAEM. She’s part of the founding team of the Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Redalyc.org) where she is the current Executive Director. Dr Becerril is founder and president of AmeliCA Conocimiento Abierto S.C. She’s co-founder of the Mexican Network of Institutional Repositories.  She’s member of the steering committee of InvestInOpenInfrastructure, and board member in SCOSS, she is also part of the council of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Dr. Williams Ezinwa Nwagwu is an Associate Professor of Information Science at the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science (now Department of Data and Information Science) of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. His research focus in the last 15 years has been on Access to Knowledge and Research Visibility in the Global South. He is the lead Consultant of the African Citation Index Project, and, Access to Knowledge Project at the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA), among others. He is a Visiting Professor/Researcher/Fellow in many institutions across the world.

Dr.Devika Madalli is Head and Professor of the Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Statistical Institute, India and served as Adjunct faculty, DISI, University of Trento, Italy. Her interests are in Open Science, Semantics, Knowledge Management. With the motto of  ‘Knowledge for All’ she contributes towards policy frameworks and technology for open access. She has served as senior consultant and evaluator to UNESCO, UNFAO, IEA, Commonwealth of Learning, OECD and European Commission. She is a member of the technical advisory board of the Research Data Alliance.