Pablo Vommaro has a Degree in History from the School of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. He has a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He is a post-doctorate in Social Sciences, Children, and Youth. He is a researcher at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research from Argentina(CONICET) and Co-coordinator of the Research Group for the Study of Policies and Youth (GEPoJu) at the Gino Germani Research Institute (UBA). He is the Research Director of CLACSO, and a member of the Working Group “Youth, children: policies, cultures and social institutions” of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). He is the Director of the Book Collection about youth (“Las juventudes argentinas hoy”, Buenos Aires: GEU) which has 45 books published between 2015 and 2022.

Dominique Babini is from Argentina, and holds a doctorate in political science and a postgraduate degree in information science. Open access and open science advisor, and previously repository manager, at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), a network of 856 affiliated institutions from 55 countries, mainly in Latin America. Represents CLACSO at the Advisory Committee on Open Science-Ministry of Science, Argentina; at Redalyc-AmeliCA´s Advisory Board; UNESCO Open Science Partnership; International Science Council (ISC) Steering Group on the Future of Scientific Publishing.

Dr Rajesh Tandon is an internationally acclaimed leader and practitioner of participatory research and development. He is Founder-President of Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), global centre for participatory research & training since 1982. He is also Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair on Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education since 2012. The UNESCO Chair grows out of and supports UNESCO’s global lead to play ‘a key role in assisting countries to build knowledge societies’. Dr Tandon also heads the Forum for Indian Development Corporation (FIDC) as its chairperson. FIDC is a tripartite initiative of the Development Partnership Administration (DPA) of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India, academia and civil society organizations.

Dr Tandon has served on numerous expert committees of Govt. of India, UGC, UN, Commonwealth & World Bank. In 2015, the Indian Adult Education Association (IAEA) awarded Dr Tandon the Nehru Literacy Award. For his distinguished work on gender issues, the Government of India honoured him with the prestigious Award in Social Justice in March 2007. The University of Victoria, Canada, awarded Dr Tandon the degree of Doctor of Law (Honoris Causa) in June 2008. He is the first Indian to be inducted to the International Adult and Continuing Education (IACE) Hall of Fame (class of 2011). He is first Indian scholar to be inducted in Academy of Engagement Scholarship in 2019.

Julian Richards is Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, UK. He is founding Director of the Archaeology Data Service, and the e-journal Internet Archaeology, both established in 1996, two years before Google was launched. His direct involvement in archaeological computing began in 1980 when he started his PhD research studying pre-Christian burial rites in England using the computing power of an ICL mainframe and an early Z80 micro-computer. In 1985 he co-authored the first textbook in archaeological computing for Cambridge University Press, and has subsequently written numerous papers and edited a number of books on the applications of information technology in archaeology. He is currently Deputy Coordinator for the European ARIADNE e-infrastructure for archaeological research, and Action Chair for the COST Action SEADDA: Saving European Archaeology from the Digital Dark Age.

Laura Rovelli is coordinating CLACSO's Latin American Forum for Scientific Evaluation (FOLEC, in Spanish) since 2020 and is a member of the Executive Board of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Evaluation (DORA). Her work in FOLEC-CLACSO is aimed at consolidating a Latin American and Caribbean space for the transformation of research assessment policies and practices in the region. Laura is a political scientist with a PhD in Social Sciences and researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Argentina.

Haseeb is a biologist-turned-development facilitator, who often introduces himself as a research enthusiast. Over the last two decades, he has worked for different international development organisations, academic institutions, donors, and the Government of Bangladesh in different capacities. Currently, he is an independent consultant on environment, climate change, and research system and is also involved with the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) as a visiting research fellow. An Associate of INASP (UK), he has been involved in mentoring and designing and facilitating capacity building sessions and dialogues for young & mid-career researchers and journal editors to improve their understanding of journal publishing practices and standards. He also writes articles and thought pieces on scholarly systems and work with pertinent agencies to improve research ecosystem. A Chef of The Scholarly Kitchen blog, Haseeb has a PhD in aquatic ecology from the University of Liverpool, UK.

Prof. Saleemul Huq is the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and Professor at the Independent University Bangladesh (IUB) as well as Associate of the International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED) in the United Kingdom. In addition he is the Chair of the Expert Advisory Group for the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and also Senior Adviser on Locally Led Adaptation with Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) headquartered in the Netherlands. He is an expert in adaptation to climate change in the most Vulnerable developing countries and has been a lead author of the third, fourth and fifth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and he also advises the Least Developed Countries (LDC) group in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In addition he is affiliated with the UN Food System Summit for 2021 as co-chair of the Action Track 5 on Building Resilience to Vulnerabilities, Shocks & Stress. He has published hundreds of scientific as well as popular articles and was recognized as one of the top twenty global influencers on climate change policy in 2019 and top scientist from Bangladesh on climate change science. Recently he has been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to combating international climate change.

Rahul Siddharthan did his PhD in 2000 at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the École Normale Supérieure, Paris and at the Rockefeller University, New York, where he switched interests to computational biology. In 2004 he joined the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. Initially part of the physics group, in 2012 he helped found a new group in computational biology at IMSc, which has conducted an innovative PhD programme since 2013. His main research interests are in regulatory genomics, chromatin, evolution, and recently in machine learning and clinical outcomes. He is also interested in the larger question of open science and data sharing, and chaired a thematic group on Open Science as part of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (STIP 2020) drafting process.

Abdullah Shams Bin Tariq is a Professor of Physics and Deputy Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He received his PhD from the University of Southampton as a Commonwealth Scholar. He is an Associate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), one of the founders of the National Young Academy of Bangladesh, an alumnus of the Global Young Academy (GYA), where he also led the Working Group on Global Access to Research Software and served two terms on the Executive Committee. He has also been a Junior Associate of the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, and a member of the first Advisory Board of AuthorAid. He won the Razzak-Shamsun Physics Research Award in 2003 (Best research by a Bangladeshi physicist in a year), and the TWAS Young Scientist Award Bangladesh in 2010 - Physical Sciences: Junior Category. Apart from research in particle and nuclear physics, he has worked for research capacity building in Bangladesh pioneering the Library Consortium of Bangladesh (LiCoB) for access to e-resources and the Arun high performance computing cluster, one of the first in Bangladesh open for researchers. He is an Open Access (OA) enthusiast, with concerns in particular on the author pays model of OA implementation. He is a keen follower of developments such as Plan S, Projekt Deal, and SCOAP3. He was one of the two Co-Chairs of the IAP Working Group that has recently published a report on Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences.

Buna Bhandari, is a Assistant professor of epidemiology at the Central Department of Public Health, Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal. She holds a PhD from the School of Population Health, The University of New South Wales, Australia. She is a Lown scholar for cardiovascular health program at the Department of Global Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, USA. Buna received multiple grants and awards; some of them include the Australia Awards PhD Scholarship, Netherlands Fellowship program 2014. She was also awarded as a research student awards from the Arc postgraduate council and Graduate Research School, UNSW, Australia in 2020 during her PhD. Over the decades, Buna has authored multiple peer reviewed scientific publications, book chapter and blog post. She is involved in capacity development of young researchers from LMICs in scientific writing through mentoring, facilitating webinars and online courses as an steward and guest facilitator of AuthorAID, INASP (UK). In addition, she is contributing in quality publication as a peer reviewer of many scientific journals of Public Health.

Dr Seetha I. Wickremasinghe is the former Additional Director of the National Science Foundation, Colombo, Sri Lanka, which is the premier institute for research funding. She obtained a BSc Special (honors) degree in Botany and MSc in Agriculture from the University of Peradeniya. She holds a Ph.D. in Science Policy at the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India.

Before joining the National Science Foundation, she served as a Research Officer at the Biochemistry Department of the Rubber Research Institute, Sri Lanka.

Dr Wickremasinghe has a vast experience in science management and administration for more than 25 years and served as research leader of the science-policy research team at the National Science Foundation. She was the past Assistant Editor of the Journal of National Science Foundation (JNSF), Sri Lanka. Dr Wickremasinghe has published her work both nationally and internationally.

At present, Dr Wickremasinghe serves as the Vice President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. She is also a Research Advisor for the Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Management at the National Institute of Education.

Her current research interests include science and technology policy, S&T indicators, national innovation systems, and science education.

Dr PRMP Dilrukshi graduated from the University of Peradeniya with B.Sc. special degree in Zoological Sciences in 1996. She obtained her Ph.D. in the areas of Medical Entomology and Morpho-taxonomy from the University Peradeniya in 2004. She joined the National Science Foundation (NSF) Sri Lanka in 2002 as Scientific Officer. She obtained education and research experience from the University of Western Sydney, University of Edinburgh, University of Monash in the areas in Science and Technology Policy. Her current research interest lies in the areas of STI policy, STEM education and Science popularization and communication. She worked as the Head in Science and Technology Policy Research Division of the NSF during the period of 2014-2018. She was instrumental in initiating National Research and Development Survey in Sri Lanka and was Principal Coordinator of the annual surveys conducted during the period of 2004-2016. She is founding secretary of the Sri Lanka Young Scientists Association (SLAYS) and has been a Life Member and held various positions in Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science (SLAAS) since 2003. She has been working as the Head in Science Communication and Outreach Division (SCOD) of the NSF since 2018 to date.

Dipak Gyawali is a hydroelectric power engineer (Moscow Energy Institute, USSR) and a political economist studying natural resources (UC Berkeley, USA). His research focuses on the interface between technology and society as related to water, energy and resource use issues from the perspectives of Cultural Theory (neo-Durkheimian theory of plural rationalities and new institutionalism). His current interests are in the philosophy of science, its links to Eastern philosophy as well as the sociology of technology.

He was chair of the non-profit Nepal Water Conservation Foundation till 2018, and in the 1990s of the poverty alleviation focused NGO, Rural Self Reliance Development Center (Swabalamban). He chaired Nepal’s first liberal arts college Nepâ School of Social Sciences and Humanities between 2010-2014, formalizing into a graduate diploma course what was run between 1999-2009 as the Immersion Course on Contemporary Social Issues. There he designed and taught modules on technology & society as well as political economy & society around the ideas of Karl Polanyi, Mary Douglas’s Cultural Theory and Stavrianos’s history of the process of Third Worldization.

Currently he is the lead author on water and the nexus for the global assessment of nexus and biodiversity by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). In addition, he serves as advisor to Nepali associations such as National Association of Community Electricity Users Nepal (NACEUN), National Federation of Irrigation Water Users Association Nepal (NFIWUAN) and Biogas Support Program, as well as to international organizations such as The STEPS Center/University of Sussex

Dr Haseena Khan, a UGC Professor has been recognized by the Govt. of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh with the Independence Day Award 2019, the highest civilian award of the country for her unique contribution to research and training. She has received the Kazi Mahbubullah Gold Medal in 2016 and Bangladesh Academy of Science - M.O. Ghani Memorial Gold Medal in 2011. She is also the recipient of the first BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services) Luna Shamsuddoha Award 2022.

She was one of the team leaders of the jute genome project, the first major genome project of Bangladesh. She with the help of an international team decoded the Hilsa fish genome and was the first group to publish the genome findings. She has developed jute lines that will be useful in paper pulping and in using jute as a source of biofuel. Her lab has also reported the existence of new antibiotic compounds in microbes isolated from jute which are proving to be high yielding and pristine sources of commercially invaluable bioactive compounds. She has over 90 publications in peer reviewed journals and contributed to many book chapters. She is the editor of a book called “The Jute Genome” published by Springer, a world-renowned publishing house.

She was the first Chairperson of the Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka. She has served in the 1st National Executive Committee on Biotechnology, (2004-2006), advising on the application of biotechnology in national development. She helped in the development of the National Biotechnology Guidelines. She is a member of the Board of Governors, of the National Institute of Biotechnology and member of the National Technical Committee on Biotechnology (2016 – till date). She is a Fellow and now the Secretary of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), and Fellow of The World Academy of Science. She was a Visiting Professor at the South Asian (SAARC) University at New Delhi, India.

Lizzie is Senior Communications Officer at the ISC. She joined the ISC from the International Social Science Council (ISSC), where she managed the publication of the 2016 World Social Science Report. Between 2013 and 2015 she worked in the interim Secretariat of Future Earth based at the International Council for Science (ICSU). She has a degree in languages, and first joined ICSU from a role in communications at the University of Oxford. She has also worked in events management and public policy research, with a focus on food and agricultural policy in the UK and Europe.

Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan is an assistant professor in hydrogeology. He is working as an active researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Technology,  Institut Teknologi Bandung. He focuses his research on translating hydrochemical data to understand the underlying hydrogeological system. He is also actively participating in promoting the open science movement and the importance of science communications to Indonesia's research ecosystem. Various national and international talks have been delivered by him to raise the awareness of freedom in research and publishing. In 2017 with some diverse colleagues, he created the INArxiv as the first preprint server of Indonesia (osf.io/preprints/inarxiv) with the support of the  Center for Open Science. Then under a collaboration with Indonesia Science Institute (LIPI) and Indonesia Open Science Team, he also led the initiation of RINarxiv (rinarxiv.lipi.go.id). Currently, he actively serves as a member of the advisory board for ON- MERRIT, Open Knowledge Maps, Researcher to Reader Conference, and Team member of  AsapBio. You can see list of his works on ORCID.

Stefano is a postdoctoral researcher working on clownfish metamorphosis at the Yilan Marine Research Station, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He strongly resonates with knowledge equity movements, and writes to provide an early career researcher's perspective on bibliodiversity, literature sourcing, and literature curation in the era of preprints. He recently articulated his vision of “preprints as the end-product” in terms of “prefigurative printing”: without journal (re)publication.  He believes that discussions on the value of scholarly communication innovations are still stunted by dominant perspectives unable to decenter journals in imagining better publishing presents and futures.

Gowri Gopalakrishna is Assistant Professor at the University of Maastricht. She is by training an epidemiologist and mixed methods methodologist with many years of public and private public health and policy experience. Some of her more notable contributions include her role in the control and containment of the SARS outbreak in Singapore in 2003. She has been featured in the Dutch media for her SARS experience and later, was part of an independent group of multi-disciplinary national experts reviewing the Dutch national covid policy response between 2020-2021. She was also featured in various media on emerging issues around the impact at which research was being done during the covid 19 pandemic, open science and research quality. In the last 4 years, she has been lead investigator to the Dutch National Survey on Research Integrity (www.nsri2020.nl), one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive studies on research integrity. She is currently Chair of the Equity Coordinating Committee of the International Federation of Biosafety Associations and Editorial Board member of BMC Medical Research Methodology.

Luke Drury is Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and a Vice-President of ALLEA, the federation of European Academies of Sciences and Humanities where he chairs the Open Science Task Force.  He is also a member of the steering group of the ISC’s project on scientific publishing.