Liz Ferguson

Liz Ferguson is Vice President, Open Research, at Wiley where she leads open access strategy and development of Wiley’s wider open research agenda. She also has a strong focus on open data initiatives. From 2004-2013 Liz was responsible for Wiley’s journal program in biology. Before then she held Publisher and other editorial positions at various STM publishing companies. Liz is Chair of the Academic Publishers Council of the Publishers Association, a member of the Royal Society’s Publishing Board, Steering Committee of the OA Switchboard, and the External Advisory Board of DataONE. She served two terms on the Board of Dryad, participated in the Universities UK OA Efficiencies Working Group, and was a member of the Program Committee of COASP from 2013-2018.