Kamran Naim

Dr. Kamran Naim is the Head of Open Science at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he leads a diverse portfolio of activities that aim to accelerate global open science practice. This includes organizational policy development (facilitating the development of CERN’s Open Data and Open Science Policies); organizing and convening CERN Open's Open Science Governance; serving on the Board of Directors of the European Open Science Cloud Association; and managing the operations of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, SCOAP3 (the world’s largest disciplinary open access initiative). Prior to his time at CERN, Kamran worked for the non-profit publisher Annual Reviews where he co-developed the Subscribe2Open Model as a pragmatic approach for publishers to adopt non-APC based approaches to open publishing. He has also worked internationally on behalf of USAID, the US National Academies, and the World Bank, to address global inequities relating to scientific information.