Alicia Wise is the Executive Director of CLOCKSS and an independent consultant who specialises in supporting organisations to make successful transitions to Open Access. She has been active on access to research information for 20 years as an academic author and in roles with funders, libraries, consortia, publishers, and universities. Prior to joining CLOCKSS held roles with Elsevier, the Publishers Association, Publishers Licensing Society, Jisc, Archaeology Data Service, and in universities. She has served on the boards of organisations including Access to Research, Accessible Books Consortium, CHORUS, Digital Preservation Coalition, and Research4Life.