Clarivate Analytics, formerly the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters, has announced that Annette Thomas has been appointed to its Board of Directors.
Thomas currently serves as a Trustee and board member of The Yale Corporation, the governing board and policy-making body for Yale University. Thomas's career spans nearly 25 years in scientific and educational publishing. She began her career as a cell biology editor for Nature, before being appointed Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group, followed by Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. and then Chief Executive of Macmillan Science and Education. For over 15 years, she was at the helm of Nature, transforming it from a handful of scientific, print-based magazines into the digitally-focused research information group.
Thomas expanded the group globally and diversified the business during her tenure at Nature and Macmillan. An early advocate of open access, she drove Nature's developments in that area, including creating a separate, open access-dedicated business division to accelerate the growth of Nature Communications, Scientific Reports and the Nature Partner Journals program. In 2010, she created Digital Science in order to harness the power of data and technology-enabled tools to improve workflows and outcomes for researchers, institutions, funders and publishers.
She later oversaw the successful transition of the Macmillan businesses into Springer Nature when the company was created, following a merger between Macmillan and Springer in 2015. As Chief Scientific Officer and global head of Springer Nature's research business, Thomas set the strategic roadmap for the new company.
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