Geraldine Billingham

Geraldine Billingham joined Berg Publishers as Editorial Director in 2009.  Her career in publishing began at Pergamon where she majored in reference works in the Social Sciences (and minored in 'special projects' for Robert Maxwell and family).   Following Elsevier's acquisition of Pergamon in 1991, she developed and managed a diverse programme of journals, books and major reference works as Publisher in the Social Sciences.  She was also project manager for the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (26 volumes, online).

Laura Brown

Laura Brown is the Executive Vice President of Strategy and Research for ITHAKA, and Managing Director of Ithaka S+R. Ithaka S+R supports innovation by working with universities, libraries, professional societies, museums and archives, and scholarly initiatives to develop sustainable business models, and by conducting research and analysis on the impact of digital media on the academic community as a whole. JSTOR, an accessible archive of more than 1,000 scholarly journals and other content, and Portico, a service that preserves scholarly content published in electronic form for future generations, are also part of ITHAKA. Laura is the author of the Ithaka report University Publishing in A Digital Age, and oversees work on a number of research programs and consulting projects, including the sustainability of academic initiatives, new models for library collaboration, changing faculty attitudes and publishing behaviors, open courseware and university-sponsored online courses, and new e-book publishing models for university presses. Prior to joining ITHAKA, Laura was the president of Oxford University Press, USA, where she spent most of her professional career. She has led a variety of publishing divisions, including scholarly, professional, reference, trade, and textbooks operations, and helped Oxford to make the transition to digital publishing. Currently an Overseer of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Laura also serves on the Board of The MIT Press, and The Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.

Peter Burnhill

Peter Burnhill is Director of EDINA, www.edina.ac.uk, the JISC UK

National Data Centre based at the University of Edinburgh. Once a

researcher and statistician with the Scottish Education Data Archive,

in 1984 he began a career providing data services, first establishing

the University's Data Library, becoming co-director of the ESRC

Regional Research Laboratory for Scotland to promote the value of

geographical information systems. Designation of the Data Library as

the EDINA national data centre in 1995 has given Peter the opportunity

to work beyond numbers, with words and now pictures and sounds: all

become digital and accessed from afar.

His interests as director and 'information methodologist' range wide.

Peter is a Past President of IASSIST, the International Association

for Social Science Information Service and Technology, the association

for data library professionals - see www.iassistdata.org . He was also

the initial director of the Digital Curation Centre during its set-up

phase in 2004/5. He has served on a variety of working groups in the

data and serials world, inside and outside the academy walls.

Diane Cogan

Diane has worked in the STM publishing industry for 28 years.  After obtaining her degree in Biochemistry, Diane joined IPC Science and Technology Press Ltd in 1980 working on their bioscience journals.  Diane  went on to develop a variety of journal and book programmes in the hard sciences working for Butterworth Scientific Ltd and Butterworth Heinemann Ltd.  In 1995 Diane moved to Elsevier and spent the next 14 years working to grow and develop the social science programme of journals and books.  In 2001 she became Publishing Director for the programme and gained responsibility for the economics journals in 2005.  Diane decided to leave Elsevier and set up her own publishing consultancy in 2009.

Santiago de la Mora

Santiago de la Mora is the Director of Print Content Partnerships for Google in Europe, Middle East and Africa and as such he and his team manage Google's relationships with large and strategic partners in the book publishing industry as well as those with newspaper and magazine publishers. Prior to Google, Mr. de la Mora spent 6 years in content production and sales on behalf of newspapers and magazines. Most recently, he was founder of a media company, Eko International, that worked with European business magazines to produce sectorial and country reports on Emerging Markets. He also has banking experience having worked at Société Générale for more than 3 years.

Mr. de la Mora holds an MBA from INSEAD as well as a B.A. in Political Science from Yale and a M.A. in International Policy Studies from Stanford.

Casper Grathwohl

Casper Grathwohl is Vice President and Publisher of Reference at Oxford University Press. In his 12 years at OUP, he has led the transition of Oxford's renowned dictionary and reference list into one of the leading online academic publishing programs in the world. Prior to OUP, Casper worked for both Princeton University Press and Columbia University Press. He currently splits his time between New York and Oxford managing the two reference centers of the Press.

Alan Jarvis

Alan Jarvis is the global director of Social Science Books at Routledge, managing a team of editors based in the UK, US and Singapore. Since starting at Croom Helm in 1986, he has held a number of different positions within Routledge and associated imprints, working under 5 different owners.

Wulf D. v. Lucius

Born 1938.

Diploma in economics 1965, Ph. D. 1967

1969-1995 partner and chief executive officer in the family owned company Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart.

Since 1996 publisher of Lucius & Lucius (economics and sociology)

Since 1970 engaged in honorary positions in the book trade, nationally and internationally with a focus on copyright, e.g. chair of stm's Copyright Committee 1990-93, IPA's Copyright Committee 1997-2000, Chair IPCC 91/92 and 97/98. Chair German copyright committee 1994-2008.

Actually member of Board of the German National Library (since 1980)

Professor for 'Verlagswirtschaft' University of Hohenheim

Honory member of the Boersenverein

Ludwig Erhard Preis 2004

Book publications

'Bücherlust - Vom Sammeln'. (2000. DuMont).

Verlagswirtschaft (2nd ed. 2007. UVK)

Private passion

Collecting books of special artistic value (typography, illustration, binding) with an emphasis on contemporary artist books.

Sarah Phibbs

Sarah Phibbs is Journals Publishing Director, Social Science & Humanities at Wiley-Blackwell.  Over the last 17 years Sarah has played a major role in developing strategies and publishing solutions for academic societies and learned institutions.  Her programme spans economics, finance, business, psychology, social science and humanities.  Sarah has a BA from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in English Literature and Psychology.

Julian Richards

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology and Head of Department at the University of York. His direct involvement in archaeological computing began in 1980 when he undertook a PhD on pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon burial ritual using the computing power of an ICL mainframe and an early Z80 micro-computer. Since 1996 he has been Director of the Archaeology Data Service and Co-Director of the e-journal Internet Archaeology. His other research interests focus on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. He has excavated Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements at Wharram Percy and Cottam, and a Viking cemetery at Ingleby. He is author of Viking Age England, now in its third edition, and of OUP's Very Short Introduction to Vikings.

Martha Sedgwick

Martha Sedgwick has worked at SAGE Publications for two years, leading New Online Product Development with a focus on the library market.  She previously worked at Macmillan Publishers Ltd managing projects to support the development of a content delivery platform to host online books and journals and the development of a usage statistics assessment tool for libraries, ScholarlyStats.