Adrian Stanley

Adrian Stanley, is an independent consultant, prior to this he was General Manager for JMIR Publications, an innovative open-access publisher since 1999, with over 30 digital health and OA medical journals. Adrian also spent 7 years as Managing Director, Publishers, at Digital Science, and 10 years as Charlesworth Group (USA) CEO.

Additionally, Adrian is the Chair of the Fully OA Publishers Group (an OASPA sub-group), a Board member for STEM Fellowship, a DOAJ Ambassador, member of the OA Switchboard, and DataSeer Client Advisory Boards. He has held numerous volunteer committee/Chair roles including a Past President for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Chair SSP Funder Taskforce, an Associate Editor for Learned Publishing, he lived and worked in China for 4 years and has over 25+ years experience working in scholarly communications and academic publishing.