Staff

Syeda Tanveer Kausar Naim

An Organic Chemist by profession, Dr Naim obtained her Ph.D degree from University of Sussex,  conducted post doctoral research at Queen Elizabeth College, London and at the University of Bonn and Bochum in Germany. She was both a researcher and a teacher at Australian National university, Canberra and at the Quaid-e-Azam university, Islamabad. In year 2000, Dr Naim was appointed the Chairperson of the Pakistan Council for Science & Technology (PCST). She is a consultant with the COMSTECH Secretariat, a member of the International Advisory Board of UNESCO, and has also served as member of the board of National Science Foundation and member of the Senate of the Institute of Space Technology. Dr. Naim was recently recognized by an independent think tank in a list of "500 Most Influential Muslims, 2009", one of the two female academics from Pakistan awarded this recognition. She is the author/editor of 12 books and several scientific papers and reports published nationally and internationally.

David Nicholson

David is Journals Publishing Director for Life Sciences, at Wiley-Blackwell.  He leads a programme of over 150 society and proprietary journals working with a team based in several European and Asia-Pacific locations. Prior to joining the company in 2004 he spent nine years at CABI Publishing, Oxfordshire, working on their portfolio of online and printed products including an educational partnership with the Wellcome Trust. He previously worked for Butterworth-Heinemann in editorial and marketing roles on medical journals. David has a particular interest in international development and the issues around access to scholarly information, and represented Wiley-Blackwell at the Research4Life strategy meeting in 2010.

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.

Kay Raseroka

Kay Raseroka is director of library services at the University of Botswana, Gaborone, and former president of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). With more than twenty years experience as a university librarian, Kay has influenced library and information service developments nationally and regionally. She has also been responsible for facilitating the founding of both national and regional professional library associations. Currently, she is engaged in advocacy for libraries as facilitators of the emerging information and knowledge society through the World Summit on the Information Society. Kay earned an M.A. in library science in London, United Kingdom. In 2010, Kay was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta.

Ian Russell

Ian Russell took up the position of Editorial Director for Science with the Oxford University Press in 2010. Prior to that, he was the 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 UKs national academy of sciences and the publisher of the worlds oldest scientific journal.  Ian has spent over 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.

John V. Wood

Chair

Chair of the INASP Board, Prof. John Wood is Secretary-General to the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and the current Chair of the European Research Area Board (ERAB). He is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Cambridge University and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was honoured in the 2007 Queen's New Year list with a CBE.  During his research career, latterly at Imperial College, London, he has held a number of directorships and consultancies within industry and has acted as an adviser on materials issues to a number of governments.  He is a Director of M4 Technologies, The Industrial Trust and Maney Publishing.