We are thrilled to announce the latest additions to the Dryad Board of Directors.

Our 12-member Board is intended to be a diverse group, with a mix of background and skills useful to represent the various stakeholders in the Dryad community — publishers, researchers, technologists, funders, and libraries. BOD members are elected or re-elected each year by the membership to serve 3-year terms.

New members for 2018-2021

The following individuals have assumed their duties:

Wolfram Horstmann has been Director of Göttingen State and University Library since 2014. Prior to that, he was Associate Director at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford, UK and CIO at Bielefeld University, Germany. He is Professor at the Information School of the Humboldt University in Berlin, teaching Electronic Publishing, Open Access and Open Science. He is biologist by training and worked on the epistemology of simulations for his doctoral thesis. Read more about Wolfram.

Paolo Mangiafico is the Scholarly Communications Strategist at Duke University and Director of the Scholarly Communication Institute. In his role at Duke, Paolo works with librarians, technologists, faculty, students and university leadership to plan and implement programs that promote greater reach and impact for scholarship in many forms, including open access to publications and data and emerging platforms for publishing digital scholarship.

Caroline Sutton is Director of Editorial Development with Taylor & Francis. Before joining the company in October 2016, she was co-founder of Co-Action Publishing, a full OA publisher. She helped to found and served as the first President of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and is a member of the present board.  At Taylor & Francis, Caroline has led efforts to roll out data sharing policies as well as initiatives related to open scholarship across subject areas.

Paul Uhlir, J.D. is a consultant in information policy and management. He was Scholar at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC in 2015-2016, and Director of its Board on Research Data and Information, 2008-2015. He was employed at the NAS in various capacities from 1985-2016. Paul has won several prizes from the NAS and the international CODATA in data policy, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Read more detailed information about his professional activities.

Officers for 2018-2019

Shout-out to our new slate of Board officers:

• Charles Fox (Chair)
• Johan Nilsson (Vice-chair)
• Brian Hole (continuing as Treasurer)
• Fiona Murphy (Secretary)

Ex Officio members

Filling out the Board roster are two members in Ex Officio (non-voting) status. We are thankful that Todd Vision, longtime BOD member and PI of grants supporting Dryad, will continue to serve. We also welcome Günter Waibel, Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of California Digital Library, in this capacity to represent our recently-announced partnership with the CDL.

Finally, we wish to express our sincere appreciation to outgoing BOD members and officers for their work on behalf of Dryad and open data.