Grace Baynes

Grace Baynes, VP, Research Data and New Product Development

Is responsible for Springer Nature’s approach to research data, including advocacy for open data and good data practice; journal data policies; and data publishing including the journal Scientific Data.

Her new product development responsibilities are currently focused on developing research data services and solutions for researchers, institutions and funding organizations, and establishing our new product development approach for researcher services.

Grace has spent twenty years in publishing, sixteen of those working in open research, joining open access publisher BMC in 2003, and since then in roles at Nature Publishing Group and now Springer Nature.