Who's who

Robert Campbell

Chair

Bob Campbell joined Blackwell Science directly from university in 1968 and became President of Blackwell Publishing in 2001.  His interest in new technology and copyright led to him being Chairman of the Adonis Consortium throughout the 1980s. He is a past Chairman of the STM Association and is currently vice-chairman of CrossRef and is on the Council of the Publishers Association, PLS and the JISC. He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University in 2005 for his contribution to publishing.  He has authored/co-authored three books and many articles on publishing.  He is currently Senior Publisher at Wiley-Blackwell

John Feather

John Feather graduated from Oxford, after which he worked in publishing and librarianship before moving to Loughborough University. He has also worked in Pakistan, Sudan and Thailand among other countries. His publications include a revised edition of his History of British Publishing (Routledge 2006), and Communicating Knowledge: Publishing in the 21st century (Saur 2003). He has published widely on issues relating to publishing, the book trade and information science. He has been Professor of Library and Information Studies at Loughborough University since 1988.

Sir George Radda

Sir George Radda was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1980, awarded the CBE in 1993 and knighted in 2000. He has received many prizes for his research work, including the British Heart Foundation Gold Medal in 1982 and the Buchanan Medal of the Royal Society in 1987. In 2006, he was awarded the Medal of Merit by the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences. Currently, Sir George is working in the newly-established Cardiac Science Centre in the University Laboratory of Physiology and is Chairman of the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium as well as the combined Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford.

Ian Russell

Ian Russell is Chief Executive of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) – the international association of non-profit publishers and those that work with them.  Ian joined ALPSP in October 2006 and before that was Head of Publishing at the Royal Society - the UK’s national academy of sciences and the publisher of the world’s oldest scientific journal.  Ian has spent 15 years working for Society publishers including ten years at Institute of Physics Publishing, the last five of those managing their journals editorial operation. Ian has degrees in Physics and Astronomy from Southampton University (UK).

Carthage Smith

Carthage Smith originally trained as a biochemist, while his PhD and research background are in Neuroscience. Carthage has been at ICSU, based in Paris, since 2001, prior to which he was head of the International section at the Medical Research Council in the UK. He is Deputy Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU) www.icsu.org, which founded INASP in 1992.

Ling Thompson

Ling Thompson joined the Royal Society in 1979 to work on international bilateral relations, establishing information services on Chinese, Japanese and Soviet scientific research, and was responsible for substantial international networking budgets.  Since retiring as Head of International Affairs in 2004 she has been associated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.