The Steering board sets the main guidelines and strategy for the initiative, oversees the work of the Coordination Committee, and decides on the creation or closure of working groups.
Members January 2026 / January 2028:
Representatives of institutions committed to supporting OSMI and investing financial and/or human resources to the Coordination Committee.
OSMI Initiators:
French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, Université de Lorraine, SPARC Europe, UNESCO, PLOS, Charité, Inria represented – 7 people
The Chair of the Coordination Committee
2 years renewable once
Experts
5 key experts from external organisations selected by the OSMI Initiators for the first Steering Board, for 2 years renewable once
6 Board members (3 institutions and 3 experts) are renewed by half every 2 years.
Rotating members: the WG Co-chairs (currently 8, new Co-chairs will be added when new WGs start) for the duration of their group.
Bobrov, Evgeny – Project Leader Open Data and Research Data Management – QUEST Center for Responsible Research, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at Charité, Germany OSMI Initiator
Bracco, Laetitia – Deputy Head of the Library Research Support Services – Université de Lorraine, France OSMI Initiator
Chaube, Pragya – Assistant Professor, UPES, Co-founder, Open Science South Asia Network (OSSAN), Co-chair of CODATA Connect, India OSMI WG4 Co-chair
Coulibaly, Cécile – Teacher-Researcher at the Virtual University of Côte d’Ivoire (UVCI), Research Deputy Manager at UFR-ISN, Open Science National Focal Point for the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Côte d’Ivoire Expert
Cortés, Julián D. – Principal professor – School of Management and Business, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia OSMI WG1 Co-chair
Elkheir, Lamis Yahia Mohamed – Co-Director and Training Lead, African Reproducibility Network (AREN) Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum, Sudan OSMI W2 Co-chair
Fressengeas, Nicolas – Open science officer for the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research & Vice-President in charge of open science for Université de Lorraine – Université de Lorraine, France OSMI Initiator
Gopolang, Lebogang – Research Librarian – Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Botswana OSMI WG3 Co-chair
Haustein, Stefanie – Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa and Co-director ScholCommLab, Canada Expert
Hrynaszkiewicz, Iain – Director, Open Research Solutions – PLOS, United Kingdom OSMI Initiator
Huidiu, Cristina – Product Owner Digital Library Services – Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands OSMI WG4 Co-chair
Koley, Moumita – Senior Research Analyst, DST-Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India / Research Fellow, Research on Research Institute (RoRI), United Kingdom Expert
Nykyri, Susanna – Chief Specialist (Open Science), Tampere University, Finland Expert
Persic, Ana – Programme Specialist for Science Technology and Innovation Policies and Open Science – UNESCO, France OSMI Initiator
Proudman, Vanessa – Director – SPARC Europe, The Netherlands OSMI Initiator
Puebla, Iratxe – Director, Make Data Count – DataCite, United Kingdom OSMI WG3 Co-chair
Romary, Laurent – Director of Culture and Scientific Information – Inria, France OSMI Initiator
Salisu, Nabila – Community Lead Global Partnership Coordinator – Open Science Community Nigeria, Nigeria OSMI WG1 Co-chair
Sondervan, Jeroen – Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at Open Science NL/Dutch Research Council (NWO), The Netherlands Expert
Szybisty, Tereza – Research Project Manager & OS/RDM Training Specialist – OpenAIRE, Czechia OSMI WG2 Co-chair
