Organisers of the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference

Programme Committee

Lars Bjørnshauge

Interim Director: SPARC Europe, Netherlands

Georg W. Botz

Open Access Policy Advisor: Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Germany

Eve Gray

Honorary Research Associate: Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Heather Joseph

Executive Director: SPARC, United States of America

Iryna Kuchma

Open Access Programme Manager: EIFL, Netherlands

Reggie Raju (Chair) 

Director: Information Technology and Communication, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Bernard Schutz

Director: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany

Ina Smith

eRepository Manager: Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Anja Stöber

Open Access Policy: Max Planck Digital Library, Germany

Hannes Van Wyk

Professor: Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa 

Advisory Committee

Boubakar Barry

Coordinator, Research and Education Networking Unit, Association of African Universities, Ghana

Bruce Bartlett

Lecturer: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Leslie Chan

Senior Lecturer: Department of Social Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

Wieland Gevers

Chair: Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa, ASSAf, South Africa

Helmut Grubmueller

Director: Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Lorraine Haricombe

Dean: The University of Kansas Libraries, University of Kansas, United States of America

Derek Law

Emeritus Professor: Information Services, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Buhle Mbambo-Tata

Executive Director: Library Services, University of South Africa, South Africa

Jennifer McLennan 

Head of Marketing and Communications, eLife, United States of America

Sanjaya Mishra 

Programme Specialist: Section for ICT in Education, Science and Culture, Information Society Division, UNESCO, France 

Reggie Raju

Director: Information Technology and Communication, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Juergen Renn

Director: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany

Frank Sander

Head of the Max Planck Digital Library, Germany

Bas Savenije

Director General: National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands

Ralf Schimmer

Head: Department for Scientific Information Provision, Max Planck Digital Library, Germany

Ina Smith

eRepository Manager: Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dieter Stein

Professor: English Language and Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany

Anja Stöber

Open Access Policy: Max Planck Digital Library, Germany

Vincent Wintermans

Programme Officer: Netherlands National UNESCO Council, Netherlands

Xiaolin Zhang

Executive Director: National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Local Organising Committee

Hilton Gibson

Systems Administrator, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Maryke Hunter-Hüsselmann

Manager: Research Information & Strategy, Division for Research Development, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Robert Kotzé

Senior Director: Postgraduate & International Office, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Sonika Lamprecht

Journalist, The Media Office, Marketing & Publication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Brenda Leibowitz

Director: Centre for Teaching and Learning, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ralph Pina

Director: Information Technology (Development), Information Technology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Reggie Raju

Director: Information Technology & Communication, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Lucia Schoombee 

Senior Librarian: Research Support, Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Mohammed Shaikh

Senior Director: Communication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ina Smith

eRepository Manager: Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Ellen Tise (Chair)

Senior Director: Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University, South Africa