{"code":"SEQ8RD","name":"Melissa Hagemann","biography":"Melissa has been a leader of the Access to Knowledge movement for over twenty years.  She managed the Open Society Institute’s (now Open Society Foundations) work to define Open Access through the Budapest Open Access Initiative and went on to support the development of the global Open Access movement. To mark the 20th anniversary of the BOAI, she spearheaded the development of new recommendations which emphasize that Open Access is not an end in itself, but a means to further ends, above all, to the equity, quality, sustainability, and usability of research. \r\n\r\nMelissa served as a member of the WMF’s Advisory Board and WMF’s\r\nSelection Committee for Executive Director and Board of Trustees.","submissions":["MPXFGX","GRT7VJ","3NMMXA"],"avatar":"https://app.eventyay.com/talk/media/avatars/MRH_headshot_GrWvdID.jpg","avatar_source":"Jennifer Winder, CC-BY","avatar_license":null,"answers":[]}