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James Wood is Alborada Professor of Equine and Farm Animal Science at Cambridge University. He was Head of the University of Cambridge Veterinary School between 2013 and 2023 and is a veterinary epidemiologist who conducts multidisciplinary research on infectious diseases, mostly focusing on disease emergence and control, including impacts on policy. His research interests are focused on One Health approaches to disease emergence and are based in the UK, India, Ghana and Ethiopia. He worked for 15 years on equine diseases when at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket. He has published widely and sat on Defra’s Science Advisory Panel for 6 years to 2021, chairing the exotic diseases sub-committee. He is an RCVS Council Member, appointed through the Veterinary Schools Council.

Debra graduated from the University of Glasgow and worked in mixed and equine practice before completing an equine surgical residency at the University of Liverpool. Prof Archer is now Professor of Equine Surgery and Head of Surgery at the University of Liverpool. Debra has published over 65 papers and presented her research at multiple international conferences. She was head of the veterinary emergency clinic and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Debra has been on the board of EVJ Ltd/BEVA Journals since 2013.

Bettina graduated from The Free University of Berlin in 2001. Following a Dorothy Havemeyer fellowship at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, Bettina completed a rotating equine internship at the Marion duPont Equine Medical Center in Leesburg, VA and a large animal internal medicine and emergency and critical care residency (alternate track) at the University of Pennsylvania, New Bolton Center. She has been a member of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care since 2005. After moving to the UK, Bettina attained a PhD, focusing on equine platelet and neutrophil function in horses with airway inflammation, from the University of London in 2008. Since 2008, Bettina has been working at the Royal Veterinary College where she is now the Head of RVC Equine and Professor in Equine medicine and emergency and critical care. Bettina has been on the board of BEVA Journals since 2019.

Dr Stuart Taylor has recently retired from his role as the Publishing Director at the Royal Society where he had responsibility for the Royal Society’s publishing operation and also the Royal Society’s scientific meetings and the medals and awards program. Prior to that he was a Publisher at Blackwell Science (now Wiley) with responsibility for books and journals in clinical medicine. He is a keen advocate of open science and believes that the scholarly communication system should genuinely serve science and do so far more effectively and efficiently than it does at present. He is a member of several open science groups and shares the growing concerns around the system of research evaluation and its over-reliance on journal publication. In 2018, he co-founded the Society Publishers' Coalition of which he is a council member. He has an MA in chemistry and a DPhil in psychopharmacology, and has published 25 peer reviewed scientific papers in the fields of drug tolerance and dependence, chemical kindling and epilepsy. Stuart has been on the board of BEVA Journals since 2019.