# [Governance roster](https://investinopen.org/about/who-we-are/)

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Last updated: 2024-01-15
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## Current

* Governance biographical notes [here](https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/governance-bios).

| Name | Governance body | Start | End | Affiliation |
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| Jochai Ben-Avie | Non-voting advisor | January 2022 | January 2024 | Connect Humanity |
| Amy Buckland | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2025 | Concordia University |
| Joe Deville | Steering Committee | September 2023 | September 2026 | Open Book Collective; Mattering Press; Lancaster University|
| Robert Karanja | Steering Committee | September 2023 | September 2026 | Co-Develop |
| Louise Marston | Steering Committee | September 2023 |September 2026 | Resolution Foundation |
| Eunice Mercado-Lara | Steering Committee | September 2023 |September 2025 | Open & Equitable Program, Open Research Funders Group |
| Danil Mikhailov | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2027 | data\[dot\]org |
| Omo Oaiya | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2025 | WACREN |
| Lorrayne Porciuncula | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2024 | Datasphere, Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network |
| Berhan Taye | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2025 | Independent researcher |
| Jeff Ubois | Steering Committee | September 2023 | September 2026| Lever for Change |
| Amy Sample Ward | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2027 | NTEN |

## Past
| Name | Governance body | Start | End | Affiliation | ? |
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| Leslie Chan | Steering Committee | 2019 | January 2024 | University of Toronto Scarborough; Knowledge Equity Lab |
| Evviva Weinraub Lajoie | Steering Committee | 2019 | January 2024 | State University of New York at Buffalo |
| Mmaki Jantjies | Steering Committee | January 2022 | January 2024 | Telkom SA; University of the Western Cape |
| Virginia Barbour | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2021 | Open Access Australasia | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42578680) |
| Arianna Becerril | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2021 | Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, REDALYC, AmeliCA | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57445312) |
| Raym Crow | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | SPARC US | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108448184) |
| Peg Fowler | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2020 | Hypothesis | |
| Jennie Rose Halperin | Community Council | September 2021 | September 2022 | Library Futures | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64346428) |
| Heather Joseph | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | SPARC US | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1998629) |
| Sarah Lamdan | Community Council | September 2021 | September 2022 | CUNY Law | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109828109) |
| David Lewis | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Indiana University, 2.5% Commitment | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49173665) |
| Robert D. Montoya | Community Council | 2021 | 2021 | UCLA | |
| Pierre Mounier | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Open Edition, OPERAS | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3386363) |
| Cameron Neylon | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2021 | Curtin University | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15285878) |
| Lucy Ofiesh | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2020 | Crossref | |
| Nici Pfeiffer | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Center for Open Science | |
| Vanessa Proudman | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | SPARC Europe | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q98918535) |
| Kristen Ratan | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Strategies for Open Science (Stratos) | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57271791) |
| Danielle Robinson | Non-voting advisor | 2018 | January 2023 | Code for Science and Society | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55381512) |
| Mike Roy | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2021 | Middlebury College | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109782512) |
| Katherine Skinner | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Educopia Institute | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109342222) |
| Ina Smith | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2020 | Academy of Science of South Africa | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109781295) |
| Shea Swauger | Community Council | September 2021 | September 2022 | University of Colorado Denver | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58100732) |
| Greg Tananbaum | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Open Research Funders Group | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108839875) |
| Dan Whaley | Steering Committee | 2018 | 2021 | Hypothesis | |
| Maurice York | Steering Committee | 2019 | 2021 | Big Ten Academic Alliance | [?](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109784430) |

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## See also
* https://investinopen.org/about/who-we-are/
* Archived copy of this page (via the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://hackmd.io/@investinopen/governance-members

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This page first published: 2022-02-07

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