Elizabeth Marincola

Elizabeth Marincola is the Senior Advisor for Communications and Advocacy at the African Academy of Sciences and is responsible for AAS Open Research, the Academy’s publishing platform. addresses many issues facing science, technology and medicine (STM) publishers, and she has advocated for quality research in Africa and why it is important. She also serves as an Ambassador for the European Science Foundation's Plan S.

Career

Marincola received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University as well as her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is the author or co-author of dozens of articles published in journals and magazines, including Harvard Business Review, Cell and Science. According to Johns Hopkins University, Marincola is the only nonscientist to be named the Fae Golden Kass Lecturer at Harvard Medical School.

Marincola served on the first National Institutes of Health PubMed Central National Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2003, on the Board of Directors for the Public Library of Science (PLOS) from 2005 to 2011, and as the first Chair of the Board of Directors of the Open Access journal eLife from 2012 to 2013.

From 2005 to 2013, Marincola was President and CEO of the Society for Science & the Public (SSP) and publisher of Science News and Science News for Kids. During her tenure at SSP, Science News received 2009 EXCEL Awards from the Society of National Association Publications (renamed later that year to Association Media & Publishing) for General Excellence and Most Improved Magazine. As President of SSP, Marincola served on the Advisory Board of the USA Science and Engineering Festival, and participated in SSP's Science Talent Search program.

From 2013 to 2016, Marincola was Chief Executive Officer of the Public Library of Science (PLOS).

Marincola joined the African Academy of Sciences on January 3, 2017.