Lara Speicher
Lara Speicher
Chair, Parallel Session 3a
Lara Speicher is Head of Publishing at UCL Press, where she leads an outstanding team of publishing professionals to deliver UCL Press’s mission. Lara comes from a publishing background and previously held senior editorial and management roles at British Library Publishing and BBC Books. She joined UCL in 2013 where, with UCL colleagues, she started UCL Press, the first fully open access university press in the UK. UCL Press has now published nearly 450 scholarly books, has a portfolio of 16 Diamond OA journals, and recently launched an open access textbooks programme. UCL Press recently celebrated its 10th birthday which coincided with a new milestone of over 20 million downloads for its content around the world.
