eLife appoints five new directors to its board

Independent nonprofit publisher eLife has five new appointments to its Board of Directors following the recent announcement of Timothy Behrens as its Editor-in-Chief.

Working with the existing members of the Board, they will help determine eLife’s strategic priorities around its publishing, technology and research culture programmes, as well as develop policy and maintain high standards of probity within the organisation.

The new directors are: Dinesh Natesan, Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Santa Barbara, US; Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN, Switzerland; Fiona Watt, Director of the non-profit organisation EMBO, Germany; Huda Zoghbi, Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, US; and Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan, DAE-Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), India.

The new members were selected following an open call to scientists across the world with a proven track record of active leadership and driving positive change. The nominating committee included representatives from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and Wellcome, alongside Joanne Hackett, Chair of eLife’s Board of Directors.

“We’re delighted to welcome these exemplary individuals to the eLife Board,” Hackett says. “The collective experiences they bring from across the research and open science spaces, as well as their passion for eLife and the vision we’re working to achieve, made them the clear choice for us. We’re excited to have them with us as we work together towards a fairer and more open future for research communication.”

As reported in Research Information, eLife recently partnered with Cactus Communications to integrate an AI-powered toolkit into its workflow.

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