Niels Stern - Managing Director

Niels Stern is Managing Director of the OAPEN Foundation and Co-director of DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books). He has worked in scholarly publishing for more than twenty years and was a co-founder of the OAPEN project in 2008. For several years he was also engaged in policymaking at the Nordic Council of Ministers. Since 2014 he has served the European Commission as an independent expert on open science and e-infrastructures. Before re-joining OAPEN in 2021, he was Head of Department at the Royal Danish Library overseeing licensing and e-acquisitions for five universities and responsible for the national library consortium in Denmark. He is a member of the OPERAS Executive Assembly, Vice-Chair of the Open Book Collective, and serves on several advisory boards and committees.

Email: stern[@]oapen.org

ORCID: 0000-0001-6466-9748

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