Appendix D

U.S. Research Data Summit Planning Committee Bios

Jennifer Hansen is the director of open data policy and strategy at Microsoft, where she provides strategic vision on open data policy, drives development of open data initiatives, and builds strategic partnerships across industry, the public sector, multilateral organizations, and academia. She has held roles in the nonprofit and tech sectors, including co-founder and president of Chronos Hub and a senior officer for knowledge and research at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While at the foundation, she championed and implemented its groundbreaking Open Access Policy, which requires all research funded by the foundation to be freely available to everyone, everywhere, without restriction. Nature called the bold action to open up scholarly research the “world’s strongest policy on open access research” and The Economist described it as “something that may help to change the practice of science.” SPARC named her a SPARC Innovator, which recognizes commitment to reducing barriers to access scientific research. In 2017, she gave a TEDx Seattle talk, “Setting Scientific Research Free,” where she talks about how keeping research behind paywalls results in social inequity and puts human lives at risk, and the urgent need to change the current model of research distribution. She holds a B.A. in history and journalism and a master’s degree in library science from Indiana University and was part of the adjunct faculty at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science.

Mary Lee Kennedy led the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) from 2018 to 2024. In her role she was responsible for the development of and implementation of ARL’s strategic direction. She built on ARL’s strengths as a leader and partner in the research and learning ecosystem; as a catalyst of global opportunity and value through the association’s suite of programs and initiatives; and as a culture that embraces innovation, diversity, and inclusion. Kennedy has a wealth of experience in academic research libraries and knowledge corporations, including the New York Public Library (NYPL), where she held the position of chief library officer (2013–2016). Before going to NYPL, she served at Harvard University as senior associate provost for the Harvard Library (2011–2013) and executive director of Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Business School (2004–2011). Prior to her roles at Harvard, she was director of the Knowledge Network Group at Microsoft (1998–2004). Throughout her career, she was principal of the Kennedy Group, where she partnered with organizations to empower local and global communities to create and use knowledge that enhances lives. She served on the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, the National Committee for Research Data, and various professional association committees. She worked throughout the world and with international organizations, including the United Nations and the Overseas Development Corporation. Kennedy earned her B.A. in social psychology and classics at the University of Alberta and her master of library science at Louisiana State University, and continued her studies through executive programs at Harvard University and Dartmouth.

Jason T. Black holds a B.S. in computer information systems from Florida A&M University (FAMU), an M.S. in computer science from Georgia Tech, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Florida State University. He currently is the co-director of the Program of Excellence in STEM (PE-STEM) a multimillion-dollar funded academic and research-centered grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Black also is director of the HBCU Data Science Consortium, as well as the director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Creativity and Innovation at FAMU. He is also campus director of the Blackstone LaunchPad @ FAMU Initiative, which seeks to foster an entrepreneurial mindset among FAMU students, faculty, and the Tallahassee community at large.

Bonnie C. Carroll, founder of Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa), has supported government, academia, and industry in managing infor-

mation as a strategic resource for almost five decades. She chairs the U.S. National Committee for CODATA and co-chairs the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Research Data and Information. She previously served as the secretary general of CODATA. She staffed two White House Interagency Working Groups in Biodiversity Informatics and Digital Data. She has extensive experience in organization planning and analysis. For over three decades, she has helped two major U.S. agencies restructure their information exchange programs. She had a principal role in international development projects, including one to help develop a national information policy for the Kingdom of Jordan (a joint Jordanian Technical Information Center/World Bank project), has done special studies for the International Atomic Energy Agency, and a pilot project to develop telematics services to the Eastern Caribbean. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and serves on its council. Carroll has written and presented extensively on information policy, information strategy, and planning for scientific and technical information management. She is on the editorial board for the journal Information Services and Use. She has an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Cornell University. Her experience working across organizational lines and international boundaries in different subject areas helps her understand the needs of various stakeholders in the public and private sectors.

Stephanie Carroll is a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska and of Sicilian-descent. At the University of Arizona, she is assistant professor of public health, associate director for the Native Nations Institute, and acting director/assistant research professor at the Udall Center. Her research group, the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, develops research, policy, and practice innovations for Indigenous data sovereignty. Her research, teaching, and engagement seek to transform institutional governance and ethics for Indigenous control of Indigenous data, particularly within open science, open data, and big data contexts. Carroll co-edited the book Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy and led the publication of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. She co-founded the U.S. Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and co-founded and chairs the Global Indigenous Data Alliance, or GIDA; the International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group at the Research Data Alliance; and the Indigenous Data Working Group for the IEEE P2890 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data. She is a founding

board member for the Copper River Tribal College in Chitina, Alaska. She received her A.B. from Cornell University and M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from the University of Arizona.

David L. McCollum is a senior research and development staff in the Mobility and Energy Transitions Analysis Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, with expertise spanning economics, engineering, policy analysis, and corporate advisory services. His research attempts to inform state, national (developed and developing), and global energy and environmental issues on matters related to, among others, deep decarbonization, net-zero emissions pathways, energy-transport-climate policies, electric sector planning, end-use sector electrification (transport, buildings, industry), Sustainable Development Goals (including interdependencies), financing needs for the energy system transformation, and human dimensions of climate change. He employs energy-economic systems and integrated assessment models in support of this work. Before joining ORNL in September 2021, McCollum was a senior research scholar with the Energy Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and a principal technical leader at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California. He currently holds secondary appointments as guest senior research scholar at IIASA; research fellow in energy and environment at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee; and honorary senior research fellow at Imperial College London. The latter is in his capacity with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Technical Support Unit (TSU – Working Group III) for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). He previously led activities within the Global Energy Assessment; IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5 – WG III); IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C; and other international, multistakeholder initiatives, such as for the World Bank and International Council for Science. He is listed by Reuters as one of the world’s 250 most influential climate scientists. McCollum received a Ph.D. and M.S. in transportation technology and policy from the University of California, Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies; an M.S. in agricultural and resource economics from UC Davis; and a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee.

Cynthia Hudson Vitale has served as associate dean of technology strategy and digital services at Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries and University Museums since May 2024. She was previously director of science

policy and scholarship at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). In this role, Vitale oversees the development and implementation of a vision and strategy for information technology and digital services. She provides leadership for the Digital Research and Curation Center, Open Source Programs Office, Data Services, and Library Applications Group. In addition, she collaborates with colleagues across the institution and external partners to support data-intensive research, open science, and the discovery and preservation of digital assets to advance the mission of Johns Hopkins University. During her time at ARL, Vitale provided strategic leadership and led international initiatives for digital collections, special and distinctive collections, university-led publishing, and research and scholarship across the top 127 U.S. and Canadian research libraries. Her career in research libraries has been scholar-facing and technology- and data-intensive. She was the head of research informatics and publishing at the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, where she led a team focused on enhancing the technology-driven research and publishing capacity of faculty and students. Vitale also worked at Washington University in St. Louis. Her areas of expertise include information architecture, research data management and curation, open science, and scholarly communications. She has been the principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on grants totaling millions of dollars in digital scholarship, data curation training and education, and data sharing. She holds a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Missouri, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations and communications from Saint Louis University.

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