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Ian Mulvany
Chief Technology Officer, BMJ Group
Since joining BMJ Group in 2020 during the pandemic, Ian has led a sweeping digital transformation, strengthening the organisation’s infrastructure, accelerating its adoption of cloud-based platforms, and embedding AI and automation to improve delivery. Ian has a long track record of driving innovation in research technology. At SAGE Publishing, he founded SAGE Ocean, an incubator advancing new methods for social science research using big data. Earlier roles include Head of Technology at eLife Sciences, Head of Product at Mendeley, and Product Manager at Nature Publishing Group. He has also consistently advocated for open science, serving on the board of Dryad and the editorial board of the Journal of Open Research Software.
A recognised thought leader on digital transformation and AI in publishing, Ian has spoken at The London Book Fair, ALPSP, STM Week, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), as well as in podcasts and webinars on the future of open research, data, and AI adoption.
He regularly shares his reflections on technology, research, and innovation on his personal blog: mulvany.net
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Theodora Bloom
Executive Editor of the BMJ
Theodora Bloom is executive editor of The BMJ. At the BMJ, Theo’s responsibilities include publishing, business, platform and operations as well as ethical and policy matters. She is a Co-Founder of the medRxiv preprint server, a collaboration between BMJ, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Yale University, and jointly coordinates open access and open research initiatives at BMJ.
Dr Jinghong Chen
Deputy Editor of General Psychiatry
Dr Jinghong Chen is the joint deputy editor of General Psychiatry. She is currently the principal investigator at Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders and professor at Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
Professor Anna Maria Geretti
Editor-in-Chief of Sexually Transmitted Infections
Anna Maria Geretti, MD, PhD, FRCPath, is Professor of Virology & Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Infection & Global Health of the University of Liverpool, and Honorary Consultant at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. She trained in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK and has a special interest in HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C infection. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, editorials, reviews and book chapters, runs capacity building programmes for resource-limited countries and enthusiastically shares her expertise to train doctors and scientists.
Professor Hans Kromhout
Editor-in-Chief of Occupational & Environmental Medicine
Professor Hans Kromhout is an occupational hygiene and epidemiology specialist, based at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Professor Kromhout’s work has covered the health effects of chemical and physical (EMF) agents in the workplace and general environment. He has been the (co-)PI of large international studies in among others the asphalt industry, rubber manufacturing industry, industrial minerals industry, health sector and agriculture and community based studies on cancer, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and reproductive health effects.
