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The Board meets several times a year to oversee the strategic and fiscal health of the organisation; board meetings are open to senior staff at member or agency organisations but only the Board Directors vote. There is also an Executive Committee, a Chair, Vice-Chair and a Treasurer. The members of the Board are not remunerated for their services to the foundation.</div> 166 <div class="subtext">Scroll down to view current board directors, the Executive Committee and to see our founding and governing documents such as charter and by-laws.</div> 167 168 169 </div> 170 171 </div> 172 173 </div> 174</section> 175 176 <div class="page-content single"> 177 <article> 178 <div> 179 <p>The Board appoints a Managing Agent to manage the day-to-day operations and is responsible for all aspects of management of the DOI system, including policy formulation and standards maintenance.</p> 180<div class="bios"> 181<figure><img src="/images/board/jclark.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 182 <h4>Jonathan Clark</h4> 183 </figcaption> 184</figure> 185<p>Jonathan Clark has been the Managing Agent for the DOI Foundation since 2015. Jonathan also works as an independent advisor on strategy and innovation. He is a Guest Lecturer and External Examiner for the Masters in Imagineering and the Strategic Events Management programmes at the Breda University of Applied Sciences. Prior to this he worked at Elsevier for 20 years in various positions in publishing, marketing and technology. He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Jonathan
185was Chair and Director of the DOI Foundation from 2005-2010. He lives mostly in Croatia.</p> 186<p><a href='https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-9662' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-orcid'></i>ORCID iD</a> 187<a href='http://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanmtclark' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i>LinkedIn</a></p> 188</div> 189<section class="block-blue"> 190 <div class="row"><h2 id="board-directors">Board Directors</h2> 191<div class="row"> 192 <div class="col"> 193<ul> 194<li><a href="#Airiti">Jieh Hsiang, Airiti</a></li> 195<li><a href="#BSI">Will Johnson-Marshall, BSI Identify</a></li> 196<li><a href="#China">Qiao Xiaodong, Chinese DOI</a></li> 197<li><a href="#CNKI">Hong Xiao, CNKI</a></li> 198<li><a href="#Crossref">Ginny Hendricks, Crossref <em>(Treasurer)</em></a></li> 199<li><a href="#DataCite">Matt Buys, DataCite <em>(Vice-Chair)</em></a></li> 200</ul> 201</div> 202<div class="col"> 203<ul> 204<li><a href="#EIDR">Raymond Drewry, EIDR</a></li> 205<li><a href="#HAND">Will Kreth, HAND</a></li> 206<li><a href="#JaLC">Hideaki Takeda, JaLC</a></li> 207<li><a href="#KISTI">Jinseop Shin, KISTI</a></li> 208<li><a href="#mEDRA">Paola Mazzucchi, mEDRA <em>(Chair)</em></a></li> 209<li><a href="#OP">Jan Planovsky, Publications Office of the European Union</a></li> 210</ul> 211</div> 212</div> 213</div> 214</section> 215<h2 id="board-biographies">Board Biographies</h2> 216<div class="bios"> 217<div class="row"> 218 <div class="col"> 219<h3 id="Airiti">Airiti</h3> 220<figure><img src="/images/board/jieh.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 221 <h4>Jieh Hsiang</h4> 222 </figcaption> 223</figure> 224<p>Jieh is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the National Taiwan University. He is also the director of the NTU Research Center for Digital Humanities, the first such center in the Sinophone world. He has received a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and had served 6 years as the University Librarian of NTU and 8 years as the Director of NTU Press. Before returning to Taiwan, he was a full professor in Computer Science at Stony Brook University. Dr. Jieh Hsiang has been on the advisory board of several national and international institutions and agencies. He was the first President of the Taiwanese Association of Digital Humanities, as well as a past President of the Taiwanese Association of Artificial Intelligence.</p> 225<br> 226<h3 id="China">Chinese DOI</h3> 227<figure><img src="/images/board/qiao.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 228 <h4>Qiao Xiaodong</h4> 229 </figcaption> 230</figure> 231<p>Having been working for ISTIC for over 30 years, Qiao is in charge of the daily operation of WanfangData Co. Ltd., which is invested by ISTIC and one of most important on-line academic information providers in China. Before that, Qiao was the Chief Engineer of ISTIC, responsible for design, development, operation and popularization of the digital library platforms of both National S&T Library (NSTL) and ISTIC. He has been working with International Committee of S&T Information for about 10 years and is the vice chairman of it now.</p> 232<br> 233<h3 id="CNKI">CNKI</h3> 234<figure><img src="/images/board/hong.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 235 <h4>Hong Xiao</h4> 236 </figcaption> 237</figure> 238<p>Hong Xiao now serves as Vice President of CNKI, as well as Editor-in-chief of China Academic Journals (CD Edition) Electronic Publishing House Co., Ltd., the publishing entity of CNKI. Prior to high management of CNKI, he was successively in charge of Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Journal Publishing Center of Science Press, and Science China Press, Chinese Academy of Sciences. XIAO Hong is a State Council Special Allowance Expert, with profound experiences spanning STM publishing, scientometrics research, subject information management, and academic resourcesâ global dissemination during the past three decades.</p> 239<br> 240<h3 id="DataCite">DataCite</h3> 241<figure><img src="/images/board/matt.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 242 <h4>Matt Buys</h4> 243 </figcaption> 244</figure> 245<p>Matt leads the team at DataCite who provide the means to create, find, cite, connect, and use research globally. DataCite is a global community that share a common interest: to ensure that research outputs and resources are openly available and connected so that their reuse can advance knowledge across and between disciplines, now and in the future. Prior to joining DataCite, Matt was the Director of Engagement at ORCID where he played an important role in growing the community into an international-scale research effort.</p> 246<p><a href='https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7234-3684' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-orcid'></i>ORCID iD</a> 247<a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-buys/' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i>LinkedIn</a></p> 248<br> 249<h3 id="EIDR">EIDR</h3> 250<figure><img src="/images/board/raymond.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 251 <h4>Raymond Drewry</h4> 252 </figcaption> 253</figure> 254<p>Raymond is Principal Scientist at Movielabs. He has been in the industry for more than 25 years primarily as a technologist. He has designed and implemented systems that range from the first fully interactive digital cable network in Europe, through the first-ever networked digital video system for journalists at an international sporting event, to real-time robotics systems for special effects and mechanical-industrial performance pieces. Before joining MovieLabs Raymond was CTO at Aggregator TV, a UK-based IPTV content company, and before that CTO and VP of engineering at Liberate Technologies. He has also been Director of Technology for New Media at Sybase; Principal Engineer and Architect for graphics systems at Digital Equipment Corporation. His patents, publications, and contributions to technical standards cover distributed multimedia systems and graphics hardware and software. Raymond has a BA in Classics (Latin) and Computer Science from Yale University.</p> 255<br> 256<h3 id="JaLC">JaLC</h3> 257<figure><img src="/images/board/hideaki.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 258 <h4>Hideaki Takeda</h4> 259 </figcaption> 260</figure> 261<p>Hideaki Takeda is a professor at National Institute of Informatics (NII) Japan, and a professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai). He received Dr. Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1991. His major research topic is Artificial Intelligence, in particular, Semantic Web. His interest also includes Scholarly Communication. He is currently the chair of Japan Link Center, a Board Member of CLOCKSS and a member of Membership Advisory Board of arXiv.</p> 262<p><a href='https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9551-9662' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-orcid'></i>ORCID iD</a></p> 263<br> 264<h3 id="mEDRA">mEDRA</h3> 265<figure><img src="/images/board/paola.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 266 <h4>Paola Mazzucchi</h4> 267 </figcaption> 268</figure> 269<p>Paola has been working in the publishing and content industry since 2000 with a particular focus on the role played by technology and innovation in the digital value chain, building bridges between the pure content-centered approach and the technology centered approach. Since 2005, Paola oversees the daily operations of mEDRA DOI RA and leads the IT team behind the DOI RA infrastru
269cture, the Italian ISBN Agency, the LIA service for the creation of accessible content for visually impaired readers. Paola loves metadata, identifiers and standards and happily engages with standard settings organizations such as EDItEUR, ISO, W3C and the DOI Foundation that she is Chairing since 2015.</p> 270<p>Her true-real life passions, however, are her two sons, hiking, good food and heavy metal music, not always in this exact order, though. Paola lives in Milan, Italy.</p> 271</div> 272<div class="col"> 273<br> 274<h3 id="BSI">BSI Identify</h3> 275<figure><img src="/images/board/willjm.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 276 <h4>Will Johnson-Marshall</h4> 277 </figcaption> 278</figure> 279<p>Will is the Head of Operational Delivery for BSI Identify. Will and his team have the substantial mission to create and then establish BSI Identify as the trusted persistent registry for construction products, supporting the industry with digital traceability. He is responsible for all operational aspects including the technical design of the service and supporting customers to create a positive onboarding and ongoing experience. Will has worked for BSI for twenty years gaining substantial commercial experience within technical publishing and in delivering public interest and innovation programmes. Based in London, UK, Will holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham.</p> 280<p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-johnson-marshall-6a3b562' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i>LinkedIn</a></p> 281<br> 282<h3 id="Crossref">Crossref</h3> 283<figure><img src="/images/board/ginny.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 284 <h4>Ginny Hendricks</h4> 285 </figcaption> 286</figure> 287<p>Ginny Hendricks is Chief Program Officer at Crossref where she has built a community-first approach to membership and technical support, product and metadata development, and global engagement and communications. She helps guide Crossref’s mission to make all research objects easy to find, cite, link and assess through their vision of an open Research Nexus. Before joining Crossref in 2015, Ginny consulted with publishing and library technologists to build user-centred discovery and analysis platforms. She has co-founded and supports several open infrastructure initiatives and became Crossref’s representative on the DOI Foundation board in 2025, also serving as its Treasurer.</p> 288<p><a href='https://bsky.app/profile/ginsta.bsky.social' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-square-bluesky'></i>Bluesky</a> 289<a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/hendricks/' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i>LinkedIn</a> 290<a href='https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0353-2702' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-orcid'></i>ORCID iD</a></p> 291<br> 292<br> 293<h3 id="KISTI">KISTI</h3> 294<figure><img src="/images/board/jin-seop.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 295 <h4>Jin-seop Shin</h4> 296 </figcaption> 297</figure> 298<p>Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come. Placeholder: 299Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come. Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come.</p> 300<p>Jinseop is Director of Korea DOI Center & Senior Researcher at Digital Curation Center, KISTI. Full bio to come.</p> 301<p>…</p> 302<br> 303<h3 id="HAND">HAND</h3> 304<figure><img src="/images/board/willk.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 305 <h4>Will Kreth</h4> 306 </figcaption> 307</figure> 308<p>Will is the CEO and founder of HAND. Formerly: executive director of EIDR, director of metadata at Showtime Networks, and director of video product management at Charter/Time Warner (participated in CableLabs unique ID working group, contributing to EIDRâs early formation). Current working group co-chair at DDEX.net - developing interoperability standards for the future of musicâs metadata supply-chain, and current co-chair of the standards register WG of the Metaverse Standards Forum. Additionally, Will was a co-founder of Wired magazine, and worked with educational software developers at the Apple Multimedia Lab.</p> 309<p><a href='http://www.linkedin.com/in/willkreth' class='bio-link'><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i>LinkedIn</a> 310<br></p> 311<h3 id="OP">Publications Office of the European Union</h3> 312<figure><img src="/images/board/jan.jpg" height="100px"><figcaption> 313 <h4>Jan Planovsky</h4> 314 </figcaption> 315</figure> 316<p>Jan has been working for EU institutions (Eurostat and Publications Office) since 2005. Currently, he is Head of unit âData Operations and Enrichment Servicesâ, ensuring the appropriate quality of metadata for EU publications so that they are findable by their intended audie
316nce and can provide a sound basis for AI-based solutions. Jan supervises the team in charge of keeping the DOI Registration Agency operational. He lives in Luxembourg.</p> 317</div> 318</div> 319</div> 320<h2 id="executive-committee">Executive Committee</h2> 321<p>The current members of the Executive Committee are:</p> 322<div class="col"> 323<ul> 324<li><strong>Paola Mazzucchi, mEDRA <em>(Chair)</em></strong></li> 325<li><strong>Ginny Hendricks, Crossref <em>(Treasurer)</em></strong></li> 326<li><strong>Matt Buys, DataCite <em>(Vice-Chair)</em></strong></li> 327<li><strong>Raymond Drewry, EIDR</strong></li> 328<li><strong>Ann Li, Airiti</strong></li> 329</ul> 330</div> 331<h2 id="governing-documents">Governing Documents</h2> 332<h3 id="charter">Charter</h3> 333<p>The DOI Foundation is a non-stock membership corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, USA, registered on 10 October 1997. The DOI Foundation has been granted 501(c)6 tax exempt status by the US Internal Revenue Service. <a href="/resources/DOIF-Charter-signed.pdf">The DOI Foundation Charter (PDF)</a>.</p> 334<h3 id="by-laws">By-Laws</h3> 335<p>The Foundation is controlled by a Board elected by the members of the Foundation. <a href="/resources/DOIF-Bylaws-11-21-14.pdf">The By-Laws (PDF)</a></p> 336<h3 id="registration-authority-agreement">Registration Authority Agreement</h3> 337<p>The DOI Foundation is the ISO 26324 Registration Authority, governed by an <a href="/resources/DOIF-RAA-ISO-26324.pdf">Agreement (PDF)</a> between ISO and the Foundation</p> 338 339 </div> 340 341 </article> 342 </div> 343 <div class="sticky-socials"> 344 <ul class="socials-side"> 345 346 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/doi-foundation-inc/"><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i></a></li> 347 348 <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><i class='fa-solid fa-fw fa-envelope'></i></a></li> 349 350 </ul> 351</div> 352 </main> 353 354 355 356<footer> 357 <div class="row"> 358 <div class="col"> 359 <a href="https://www.doi.org/"><img class='footer-logo' src="/images/logos/ 360footer_logo_cropped_registered.svg" /></a> 361 </div> 362 <div class="col"> 363 <ul> 364 365 <li><a href="/the-identifier/resources/">Resources</a></li> 366 367 <li><a href="/the-foundation/board-and-governance/">Governing Board</a></li> 368 369 <li><a href="https://doi.statuspage.io/">Status page</a></li> 370 371 <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email us</a></li> 372 373 </ul> 374 </div> 375 <div class="col"> 376 <ul> 377 378 <li><a href="/the-identifier/resources/handbook">The DOI Handbook</a></li> 379 380 <li><a href="https://www.iso.org/standard/81599.html">ISO 26324</a></li> 381 382 <li><a href="/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a></li> 383 384 <li><a href="/resources/130718-trademark-policy.pdf">Trademarks (PDF)</a></li> 385 386 </ul> 387 </div> 388 </div> 389 <div class="row"> 390 <div class="col copyright"> 391 392 <p>Copyright © 2026 DOI Foundation. <i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-creative-commons'></i><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-creative-commons-by'></i> The content of this site is licensed under a <a href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/' title='Creative Commons' target='_blank'>Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</a>.</p><p>DOI®, DOI.ORG®, and shortDOI® are trademarks of the DOI Foundation.</p> 393 394 </div> 395 <div class="col socials"> 396 <ul class="socials-footer"> 397 398 <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/doi-foundation-inc/"><i class='fa-brands fa-fw fa-linkedin'></i></a></li> 399 400 <li><a href="mailto:[email protected]"><i class='fa-solid fa-fw fa-envelope'></i></a></li> 401 402</ul> 403 </div> 404 </div> 405</footer> 406
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