Biography

Biography

Ginny Hendricks is Chief Program Officer at Crossref, leading community, membership, and program/product functions, working with the board and the research community to ensure responsible and sustainable oversight of the Crossref ecosystem. Before Crossref, she ran ‘Ardent’ for a decade, consulting within scholarly communications on awareness and growth strategies, product launches, and building global communities. She instigated Metadata 20/20, co-founded Scholarly Social and FORCE11’s Upstream, and has helped create and develop several open infrastructure initiatives, including ROR and POSI. She serves as Treasurer of the DOI Foundation, represents the international community on the Board of African Journals Online (AJOL), and works to encourage more effective open metadata practices as part of the Steering Committee of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.