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 set the standards of a future open science ecosystem. Among these activities is managing the operations of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), a global collaboration which has transitioned research output in the discipline of high energy physics to be almost entirely open access. Kamran holds a PhD from Stanford University on Cooperative Models to support open access publishing, and continues to work to support global efforts to address information inequity and global health challenges.