Midnight at the Casablanca

Liz Ferguson is the Senior Vice President for Research Publishing at Wiley. For this season finale episode, Paul and Lauren have joined forces to bring you a fascinating conversation with Liz, exploring the changing open access landscape over the past 15 years, the role of learned societies in the publishing ecosystem, the rise of research integrity issues in scholarly publishing, and the rollout of the Research Exchange platform across Wiley's journal portfolio.

Rebecca McLeod is Managing Director of the Harvard Data Science Review, and current President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. In this candid episode, Rebecca speaks with Lauren Kane about the future of academy-led innovation, navigating race and class divides, and what it means to be a “wartime president.”

Christian Grubak is CEO of ChronosHub, the Copenhagen-based publishing workflow company acquired by the American Chemical Society in 2023. In this entertaining episode, Christian speaks with Lauren Kane about choosing coding over college, the highs and lows of the cofounder experience, and the key to preserving a startup culture within one of the industry's most revered organizations.

Abhi Arun took over as the CEO of the publishing services company TNQ in 2016 and led the company to a successful exit in 2014. Following the sale, Abhi took on a new role as CEO of Enago as well as its parent company Crimson Interactive.

Thane Kerner, the co-founder of Silverchair and Hum, has been at the forefront of technological innovation in scholarly publishing from the earliest experiments with digital distribution in the 1990s (think CD-ROMs and PDAs) through the current transformation the industry is undergoing in the age of AI.