Reiner Kallenborn studied mathematics at Saarbrücken University, Germany, where he graduated in 1982 (diploma thesis). From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a scientific assistant at the department of physics of Saarbrücken University. He completed his doctoral thesis in mathematics at Kaiserslautern University in 1987. After postdoctoral research in mathematics and high energy physics he became a library trainee at Kaiserslautern University. He pursued his studies in librarianship at Frankfurt library school, where he graduated in 1991. From 1991 until 1999 be served as a subject librarian and head of the branch library for mathematics and computer science as well as IT project manager at Technische Universität München Library. Apart from his involvement in library work he was a lecturer for statistical inference methods at Munich University of Applied Sciences. From 1999 to 2002 he was head of the department for public services at the same library. He currently is University Librarian of Technische Universität München. Reiner Kallenborn has served as the IATUL treasurer from 2005 to 2011. Since January 2013 Reiner Kallenborn is President of the International Association of University Libraries.

A choice of initiatives completed or on-going under the responsibility of Reiner Kallenborn comprise

• Development of the electronic retrieval and document delivery system ELEKTRA in collaboration with the TUM Chair of Database Systems and Knowledge Bases (licence sold to SISIS GmbH now OCLC in 2000)
• Restructure of Technische Universität München Library in collaboration with the Strategy and Technology Consulting Firm Booth Allen & Hamilton
• Development of the multimedia management system mediaTUM in collaboration with the TUM Chair of Applied Informatics - Cooperative Systems
• Introduction of a quality management system based on ISO 9001:2001, now ISO 9001:2008
• Development of a comprehensive infrastructure for information literacy
• Development of an integrated service infrastructure for research data management and research collaboration (on-going project)
• Development of several Android and iOS apps for library systems in collaboration with the TUM Chair of Applied Informatics - Cooperative Systems
• Several on-going projects to promote the use of electronic literature and publishing in an university environment, including
• test models of patron driven acquisition
• developing an open access policy for the university management
• prepare the migration to e-only acquisition for journals (already completed) and books
• development and operation of publishing facilities for university members

Şebnem Burnaz is professor of marketing and director of the Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University. She received her Ph.D. degree in management -with major in marketing- from Bogazici University. She has been lecturing courses such as Principles of Marketing, Marketing Management, Retail Marketing, Marketing Research, Global Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Communications, Marketing Theory. Her research interests are in the fields of Marketing, Retailing, Decision Making, and Business Ethics. She published several articles and presented papers in leading conferences. She also acts as the director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ITU GINOVA) and the board member of Turkish Marketing Association.

Ahmet Emin Eroğlu 1963 yılında Ordu’da doğdu. Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Kimya Bölümünü 1985 yılında bitirdi. Yüksek lisans ve doktora derecelerini, aynı bölümden Analitik Kimya alanında, sırayla 1988 ve 1996 yıllarında aldı. 1996-1998 yılları arasında, Sheffield Üniversitesi (BK) Analitik Bilimler Merkezinde doktora sonrası araştırmalar yaptı. 2000 yılında yardımcı doçent olarak katıldığı İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsünde, 2002 yılında doçent, 2007 yılında profesör oldu. Çeşitli numunelerdeki kirletici/toksik maddelerin spektrometrik ve kromatografik tekniklerle tayini üzerine metotlar geliştirmeye çalışmaktadır. Eroğlu, İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsünde araştırmalardan sorumlu rektör yardımcısıdır ve yeni yapılandırılan Araştırmalar Direktörlüğünü yönetmektedir.  

He received his BA in International Relations (1998) from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences and his master's degrees in European Law from Marmara University European Union Institute and in Information Studies from Aberystwyth University in Wales. He joined Sabancı University in 2005. After several duties in the Information Center, he has been appointed as Director in May 2013. He has also been acting as a board member of Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS).

Simone Sacchi is the EU Projects Manager at LIBER, the Association of European Research Libraries, where he drives the agenda and oversee the work across all the international project partnership LIBER participates in. Simone came to LIBER with more than 15 years experience working in academic libraries and research centers, first at the University of Bologna, Italy and then at Columbia University in city of New York, USA. His research and professional agenda addresses topics in Open Science, Scholarly Communication and Digital Stewardship, with a strong emphasis on the “human factor” necessary to ensure the success of research libraries in supporting 21st century world class research and scholarship. Simone holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and a Masters Degree in Library Science from the University of Parma, Italy.

Judy Verses is Executive Vice President, Research at Wiley.  As such she is responsible for Wiley’s global journal publishing business, and related magazines, databases, software and websites for the research community.  Judy is also a member of Wiley’s Executive Leadership Team.   She joined Wiley on October 24 2016and is based in Hoboken and Oxford.

Judy’s career reflects her lifelong passion for enabling knowledge, with its power to transform individuals and the world in which we live.  She came to Wiley from Rosetta Stone, a market leader in online language learning and literacy, where since 2011 she has been President, Global Enterprise & Education, with responsibility for all institutional business across all geographies, as well as product and business development, IT, and global communications, and where she built a robust, sustainable enterprise business focused on delivering profitable growth.

Previously, she had been President and Chief Client Officer at Blackboard, a leading supplier of educational enterprise software, overseeing global sales and marketing, and President and COO at Blackboard Learn. She led the company’s transformation to a customer-centric organization, significantly increasing customer satisfaction. From 1983 to 2007, Judy held several senior leadership roles at telecommunications giant Verizon (among them SVP Marketing, SVP Broadband Solutions, and VP Business Sales), where she successfully launched Verizon FiOS.  She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Connecticut and began her career with Xerox in sales. 

Judy has served as a mentor with the Laura Bush Fellowship Initiative and in 2014 joined the board of Promethean World, a global education technology leader in solutions for the interactive and engaged classroom. She is a leader who develops talent, builds teams, and creates an environment that values performance and empowers employees to do their best work, be successful, and contribute to the company’s success. 

Ayhan Kaygusuz has been library director of Istanbul Şehir University since 2010. He worked as library director of Istanbul Technical University for 13 years and Abant Izzet Baysal University for one year. Before that he worked for public library authority under the Ministry of Culture and run ISBN Agency and ISSN Center. Between 2000 and 2007 he was steering committe member and then president of ANKOS (Anatolian University Libraries Consortium).  He is interested in information literacy, open access and institutional repositories. He has been actively working on these subject areas with a group of library directors in Turkey. 

Sami Çukadar completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in Information and Document Management at Istanbul University and his BA in Economics at Anadolu University.
Sami Cukadar is the Library Director at Istanbul Bilgi University Library and e-Resources in Istanbul, Turkey. He is also an academic staff at Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law and teaches “Research Methods and Accessing Legal Information Resources” to the first year Law School students.
Mr. Çukadar is also active in non-governmental organizations in the field of librarianship and information management. He is the board member of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium and coordinator of UNAK-Turkish Platform of Law Librarians. He has written and made studies on fields of total quality management, distance learning and university libraries. His current research focuses on legal information, information literacy, distance education, university libraries, consortiums and ERM 

After obtaining his BSc (Middle East Technical University, Ankara) and MSc in Economics (University of Vienna), he gained his PhD from the University of Munich in 2008. Until 2005 Kabadayı has mainly worked on economic, financial and labour history of the Ottoman Empire. Since October 2016 he is the principle investigator of the, UrbanOccupationsOETR an ERC Starting Grant Research Project, (urbanoccupations.edu.tr) at Koç University. Currently he is pursuing his academic career further as an economic historian focusing on the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey.

Ertuğrul Çimen is the Library Director of MEF University.
He has an active role in NGO’s and professional organisations at national and international level. Mr. Çimen has been serving Coordinatior of ANKOS Academy and ANKOS Collaboration Study Groups, he is also the Information Coordinator of IFLA Document Delivery & Resourse Sharing Standing Committee.
 
Mr. Çimen is the editorial board member of Interlending & Document Supply Journal (Emerald Publishing, England) and International Journal of Knowledge Management & Practices (IJKMP, India). He has several presentations and published papers about resource sharing & document delivery, library consortiums, collaborations, staff exchange programs, electronic resources management, library consortiums, social media in libraries.

Michele manages relations with international members and partners for DuraSpace.  He initiates efforts to broaden and extend the organizational reach in support of the preservation and accessibility of cultural heritage and academic resources globally.

Before joining DuraSpace, Michele was International Business Development Manager at 4Science, an organization that supports universities, research and cultural institutes in managing and realizing digital projects using open source technologies.

Prior to his work at 4Science and DuraSpace, Michele was responsible for International Relations and Business Development at Cineca, a Consortium of over 70 Italian universities and the Ministry of Higher Education, creating strategic partnerships with national and international organizations around the world.

Michele is a Board Member, Executive for External Relations at euroCRIS (the International Organization for Research Information) and he was Board Member of EUNIS (European University Information Systems Association) for 4 years. 

Gultekin Gurdal was graduated from Hacettepe University Library Science Program (currently the Information Management Program) in 1990 and completed his MBA degree from Kocaeli University.

He has been continuing to be the Library Director at Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE) since 2005. He has previously held positions at Bilkent University, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Sabanci University and TOBB University.

He served as the Chairman of the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS) between the years 2008 and 2012. Currently, he serves as the Coordinator of the ANKOS Open Access and Institutional Repositories Working Group. He is recently working especially on the Open Access studies and after OpenAIREPlus project partner that was completed at the end of December 2014, he is now an OpenAIRE2020 project partner. Also, last year he was elected as one of the members of the Open Science Committee which was founded by The Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council.

He keeps active membership with the following organizations; Turkish Librarian' Association (TKD), University and Research Librarians Association (UNAK), Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche - Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), The European Organisation for International Research Information (EuroCRIS), International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL).

He has many national and international publications. He is a close follower and practitioner of all kinds of scientific and technological development in the field of librarianship/information science.