2 minute read.Meet the candidates and cast your vote in our 2025 Board elections
On behalf of the Nominating Committee, I’m pleased to share the slate of candidates for the 2025 board election.
Each year we do an open call for board interest. This year, the Nominating Committee received 51 submissions from members worldwide to fill five open board seats.
We have four large member seats and one small member seat open for election in 2025. We maintain a balanced board of 8 large member seats and 8 small member seats. Size is determined based on the organization’s membership tier (small members fall in the $0-$1,650 tiers and large members in the $3,900 - $50,000 tiers).
We were pleased to see the diversity in candidates, with applicants from 19 countries. The committee was keen to prepare a diverse slate of organization types, individual skills and perspectives, and global representation.
Tier 1, Small member seats (electing one candidate)
- Rebecca Wambua, Distance, Open and e-Learning Practitioners’ Association of Kenya
- Oscar Donde, Pan Africa Science Journal
- Nwachukwu Egbunike, Pan-Atlantic University Press
Tier 2, Large member seats (electing four candidates)
- Damian Bird, CABI
- Rose L’Huillier, Elsevier
- John Sivo, IEEE
- Nick Lindsay, The MIT Press
- Anjalie Nawaratne, Springer Nature
Every member has a vote
If your organisation is a voting member in good standing as of September 5th, 2025, you are eligible to vote.
The voting contact for your organisation will receive a ballot from eBallot, a third party election platform. You should receive your ballot by Wednesday, September 17th, and you will have until 12:00 UTC on October 22nd to submit your ballot.
The election results will be announced at Crossref2025, our annual online meeting on October 22nd, 2025.
Special thanks to the committee: James Phillpotts of Oxford University Press, Wendy Patterson of Beilstein Institut, Abiodun Falodun of University of Benin, Amanda Ward of Taylor & Francis, and Chaerul Umam of the National Library of Indonesia for the time they dedicated to reviewing the expressions of interest and participating in committee meetings.
If you have any questions about our election process, please contact me
Happy voting!
