ORCID: 0000-0002-7265-2564
Malavika is OASPA’s Program Manager, leading a range of activities that directly support OASPA’s mission. With roots in editorial development and experience over a 17-year career in STM publishing, Malavika has a love for harnessing workflows and technology on one hand, and galvanising people and communities on the other, to help deliver open access for scholarly content. Much of her work has been in bringing disparate teams together and using data and creativity to find ways of achieving open access. Malavika is also Chair of the Society Publishers’ Coalition (SocPC).
Prior to OASPA, Malavika was Publisher, and then Director of Publishing, for the Biochemical Society, where she changed the publishing culture and model in favour of open science. She started her career at Informa Healthcare, where she held various roles across peer-reviewed journals, books and databases.
Malavika dreams of a world where scholarly publishing is open access publishing – by default, for everyone. She has authored this series of posts about equity in open access.
