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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.

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 role of the Advisory Board is to provide advice and guidance to the Foundation Board and the DOAJ team. Terms of reference govern the Advisory Board's remit.

The nomination and appointment process for members of the Advisory Board will run from March to May 2025.

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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 DOAJ's Managing Director up 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.

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Advisory Board

The nomination and appointment process for members of the Advisory Board will run from March to May 2025.

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