Welcoming a New Chef in the Kitchen, Tao Tao

Tao Tao I am very pleased to announce that Tao Tao has graciously agreed to join The Scholarly Kitchen as a regular contributor. Tao is an independent consultant focusing on the Chinese academic market. She has worked in the scholarly publishing industry for her entire career, starting as Associate Editor of Chinese Medical Journal, the oldest academic periodical in China. Later she joined The Charlesworth Group, a UK publishing services company, and helped establish their first overseas office in Beijing and held the position of General Manager for 15 years before moving to the US office as Vice President China Sales. Years of work in China and in the US has given Tao a good understanding of both the Chinese and Western community of academic communications.

As the importance of China in the both the worlds of scholarly research and scholarly communications continues to grow, I’m thrilled that we can add Tao’s expertise to The Scholarly Kitchen. Please join me in welcoming Tao, her previous guest posts can be found here, and her first post as a Chef is here.

David Crotty

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David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.