Vanessa Proudman
Vanessa Proudman is director of SPARC Europe, working to make open the default in Europe. Vanessa has well over 20 years of experience in international, national, and regional policymaking and advocacy in the areas of open access, open science, open culture and open education with many leading universities and libraries worldwide . Research- and evidence-based policymaking is key to her work, as is connecting stakeholders and sharing knowledge to build capacity on open. Prior to SPARC Europe, she worked at Tilburg University on various international initiatives, was program manager at Europeana and led a dept on information and IT at a UN-European region research institute in Vienna for over 10 years aside from having her own company to advise academic libraries on how to innovate in the digital age.
