The Researcher to Reader Conference is directed by Mark Carden, a recruiter in the scholarly communications sector.  Each annual Conference has an Advisory Board, with its membership drawn from senior and experienced people within the international scholarly publishing community, potentially including Researchers, Librarians, Publishers, Funders, Aggregators, Distributors, Agents, Technologists and Consultants. The Advisory Board oversees the themes and content of the Conference, to ensure that it is relevant to the community and representative of a wide spectrum of opinion.

Members of the Advisory Board serve on an annual basis, concluding in April of each year, but may be invited to continue their contribution for multiple years.  The members receive a complimentary delegate place at the Conference that they have helped to plan.

The Conference is greatly improved through the support that it receives from the members of the Advisory Board.

Current Advisory Board

• Mark Allin
  – Principal at ContentAll and former CEO at Wiley
• Rick Anderson
  – University Librarian at Brigham Young University
• Mark Carden
  – Managing Consultant at Mosaic Search and Director of Researcher to Reader
• Laura Cox
  – Senior Director, Publishing Industry Data at Copyright Clearance Center
• Bernie Folan
  – Communications and Outreach at OASPA & C4DISC
• Dr Haseeb Irfanullah
  – independent consultant on environment, climate change and research systems
• Dr Danny Kingsley
  – Director, Library Services at Deakin University
• Arend Küster
  – Country Manager, India at Springer Nature
• Jayne Marks
  – Head of Business Development, EMEA, Maverick
• Dr Fiona Murphy
  – Co-founder, Partnerships at MoreBrains Cooperative
• Dr Heather Staines
  – Director of Community Engagement at Delta Think

Board Members Emeritus

• Chris Banks – former Director of Library Services at Imperial College London
• Sam Bruinsma – former Vice-President Business Development at Brill
• Luke Davies – Director, EU Publisher Relations at EBSCO
• Nawin Gupta – Principal at Informed Publishing Solutions
• Dr Dasapta Erwin Irawan – Assistant Professor at the Institut Teknologi
• Rob Johnson – Director at Research Consulting
• Dr Phill Jones – Co-founder at MoreBrains Cooperative
• Peter Lawson – former Publishing Consultant & Director at Karger
• Sid McNeal  – Senior Vice President at EBSCO Information Services
• Dr Anna Sharman – Researcher Development Manager at Kew Science
• Stephanie Veldman – Director of Open Research at De Gruyter Brill
• Anthony Watkinson – Principal Consultant at CIBER Research
• Wilhelm Widmark – Library Director at Stockholm University

(updated 23 July 2025)