Program Committee
Mayur Amin, Senior Vice President of Research, Elsevier, Oxford
Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR, London
Dr. Georg Botz, Co-Ordination Open Access Policy, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich
Dr. Jan Brase, Head of DataCite, German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Hannover
Sabine Brünger-Weiland, President & CEO, FIZ Karlsruhe. Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
Robert C. Campbell, Senior Publisher, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford
Prof. Dr. René Deplanque, Secretary General, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Paris
Dr. H. Frederick Dylla, Executive Director and CEO, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD
Dr. Einar Fredriksson, Director, IOS Press, Amsterdam
Dr. Sven Fund, CEO, De Gruyter, Berlin
Bettina Goerner, Vice President Corporate Market Development, Springer Science + Business Media, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Stefan Gradmann, President, DGI, and Director, University Library, Leuven
Herbert Gruttemeier, Head International Relations, INIST-CNRS, Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Stuart Hamilton, Senior Policy Advisor, IFLA,The Hague
Prof. Dr. Pascal Hitzler, Knowledge Engineering Lab, Kno.e.sis, Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
David Hoole, Head, Content Licensing and Brand Marketing, Nature Publishing Group, London
Arnoud de Kemp, Organisation Committee APE 2014, Berlin, Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Information Services & Use", Publisher, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft AKA, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Koch,Executive Director, German Chemical Society, Frankfurt am Main
Ulrich Korwitz, Director, German National Medical Library, Cologne
Prof. Dr. Dirk Lewandowski, Department Information, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
Peter LInde, The Library, Biekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona
Tony Llewellyn, Executive Director, International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), Paris
Dr. Wolfram Neubauer, Director, ETH Libraries and Collections, Zürich
Michael Mabe, CEO, International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), The Hague and Oxford
Dr. Salvatore Mele, Head of Open Access, CERN, Geneva
Henning P. Nielsen, President, Pharma Documentation Ring (P-D-R) and Director, Novo Nordisk Library, Basværd
Dr. Bernd Pulverer, Chief Editor, Head of Scientific Publications, The EMBO Journal, EMBO, Heidelberg
Ian Russell, Editorial Director, Science, Oxford University Press, Oxford
Prof. Dr. Felix Sazaki, Manager, W3C German/Austrian Office, DFKI, Berlin
Dr. Ralf Schimmer, Head, Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL), Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Munich
Dr. Eefke Smit, Director, Standards and Technology, International Association of Scientific, Medical and Technical Publishers (STM)
Dr. Christian Sprang, Legal Counsel, German Association of Publishers and Booksellers (Börsenverein), Frankfurt am Main
Dr. Herman P. Spruijt, Past President, International Publishers Association (IPA), Geneva
Dr. Heather R. Staines, VP Publisher Development, SIPX, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann, Director, German National Library of Economics, Kiel/Hamburg
Dr. Els van Eijck van Heslinga, Acting Director of Finance and Corporate Services, National Library of The Netherlands, The Hague
Jan Velterop, CEO, Academic Concept Knowledge, Epsom, Surrey
Ir Wilma von Wezenbeek, Director, TU Delft Library, Delft