Rebecca Lawrence

Biography

Rebecca Lawrence is Vice President, Knowledge Translation at Taylor & Francis and Founding Managing Director of the open research publisher, F1000 (now part of Taylor & Francis). She is currently Vice-Chair of DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment) and co-Chair of the NISO Working Group on Identification of Trust Markers for Increasing Credibility and Trust in Research (ITEM). She is Scientific Advisory Board member for EBI & EMBL Literature Services and Europe PMC, and Advisory Board member for ASAPbio. She was a member of the EC’s Open Science Policy Platform, chairing their work on next-generation indicators and Editor of the final report. She was also a member of the US National Academies (NASEM) Committee on AI and machine learning-based Advanced and Automated Workflows, and has been co-Chair of many working groups including for Research Data Alliance (RDA) and ORCID. She has worked in STM publishing for over 25 years, is an Associate of the Royal College of Music, qualified as a pharmacist, and holds a PhD in Pharmacology.