Edson Watanabe

• Name person: Edson Watanabe
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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• Short teaser text: Edson Watanabe, PhD is Vice-Director of COPPE/UFRJ.
• Full text: Edson Watanabe, PhD, Full Professor at the Electrical Engineering Program, COPPE. Dr. Watanabe is Vice-Director of COPPE/UFRJ. He has pioneered research integrity policies at COPPE/UFRJ, including those to tackle plagiarism in theses and dissertations. He has instituted a course, offered annually at COPPE, on scientific methodology combined with RI/RCR issues, which is open to non-COPPE participants. He has been active in discussing RI/RCR issues among COPPE’s faculty and has played a substantial role in promoting debates on the topic. Dr. Watanabe led the Commission that established COPPE´s recently released guidelines on research integrity. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the Sub-Committee on Research Integrity of CTEP/UFRJ. He was a member of the Organizing Committee of the II BRISPE and III BRISPE and one of the editors of the Joint Statement on Research Integrity.

Melissa Anderson

• Name person: Melissa Anderson
• Function description: Conference Co-Chair
• Organisation: University of Minnesota
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• Short teaser text: Melissa S Anderson is Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota.
• Full text: Melissa S. Anderson, Ph.D., is Associate Dean of Graduate Education and Professor of Higher Education at the University of Minnesota. She serves on the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Ethics Committee of the American Educational Research Association,and the editorial boards of Science and Engineering Ethics, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, and Accountability in Research. She chaired the committee that wrote the Ethical Principles for the Association for the Study of Higher Education. Dr. Anderson's work over the past 25 years has been in the areas of research integrity, research misconduct, and academy-industry relations. Her research, funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, has focused on the research environment in relation to research integrity. Dr. Anderson was principal investigator of an NIH-funded study of international research collaborations, and she recently co-edited (with Nick Steneck) the volume International Research Collaborations: Much to be Gained, Many Ways to Get in Trouble (Routledge Press).

Nils Axelsen

• Name person: Nils Axelsen
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: Statens Serum Institut
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• Short teaser text: Dr. Axelsen is Ombudsman for Research Integrity at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, the first ombudsman of this kind in Denmark.
• Full text: Nils Axelsen, MD and DSc.Med, was associate professor at Copenhagen University 1969-78, and has since then had leading positions at Statens Serum Institut, including being director for the institute 1985-88. His scientific field is clinical biochemistry, especially immunochemistry, where he has contributed to development of the powerful Scandinavian electro immunochemical methods, and is editor of three handbooks on this topic. Dr. Axelsen is, since 2008, Ombudsman for Research Integrity at Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, and so far the first ombudsman of this kind in Denmark. He is responsible for training all researchers at the Institute’s many departments in Good Research Practice (RCR). Axelsen was one of the founders of the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (1992), member of the medical committee 1993-2005, and has participated as investigator in many cases of al-legations for scientific dishonesty, and in some 75 decisions of the DCSD. He was member of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Committee on Bioethics 1994-2001, chair 1995-96. Dr. Axelsen has received the Thorvald Madsen Prize and a Gold Medal from University of Aarhus. He has served on many national and international committees on scientific and science policy, and is a member of Danish Academy f or the Technical Sciences (ATV) and the Danish Academy for the Natural Sciences.

Paul Taylor

• Name person: Paul Taylor
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: University of Melbourne, Australia
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• Short teaser text: Paul Taylor, PhD, is the Director of the Office for Research Ethics & Integrity (OREI) at the University of Melbourne.
• Full text: Paul Taylor, PhD, is the Director of the Office for Research Ethics & Integrity (OREI) at the University of Melbourne. Paul has worked in research management for 6 years. He completed a PhD in Environmental Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne, where he teaches to second year students. Dr. Taylor is Member of the International Programs Advisory Group for the University of Melbourne; Chair of the Universitas 21 Global Issues Program; Member of the University of Melbourne Mobility Advisory Group; Member of the Crawford Fund Victorian branch. Taylor holds numerous honorary adjunct Professorial positions at Nanjing Agricultural University, China; King Mongkut Institute of Technology, Thailand; Kasetsart University, Thailand; Maejo University, Thailand; and cosupervisors graduate students at University of Malaya.

Paulo Beirão

• Name person: Paulo Beirão
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development
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• Short teaser text: Paulo Beirão, PhD, was Chair of the Commission on Research Integrity at CNPq (2011-2013).
• Full text: Paulo Beirão, PhD, Full Professor at the Biochemistry and Immunology Department, UFMG. He was president of the Brazilian Society for Biophysics (1994-1996) and the Brazilian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2006-2008). He was also president of the Board of Trustees of FAPEMIG (2010-2011) and has acted as a representative of the scientific community in various committees on education, science and technology, including those at CNPq. He was a member of FINEP Advisory Council and of the committee that developed the 2011-2020 Brazilian National Plan for Graduate Studies, launched by CAPES. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and former director of the Agricultural, Biological, and Health Sciences Division of CNPq (2011-2013). He was Chair of the Commission on Research Integrity at CNPq (2011-2013) and is currently the director of Director of Science, Technology and Innovation of Minas Gerais Foundation for Research Support.

Sabine Kleinert

• Name person: Sabine Kleinert
• Function description: Senior Executive Editor
• Organisation: The Lancet
• Location - country: London, UK
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• Short teaser text: Dr. Sabine Kleinert studied Medicine in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the USA, and trained as a Paediatrician in the UK and Belgium. After further specialist training in Paediatric Cardiology at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London and the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
• Full text: After she received research training at the Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA, she joined The Lancet as a full-time Medical Editor in 1998. In March 2002, she became Executive Editor, and in July 2006 Senior Executive Editor. She joined the Committee on Publication Ethics in 1999, was elected to Council in 2002, and served as Vice-Chair from 2006 to March 2012. She was a member of the planning committee of the first and second World Conference on Research Integrity (Lisbon 2007, Singapore 2010), co-chaired the planning committee for the third and fourth World Conference on Research Integrity (Montreal 2013, Rio 2015), a member of Steering Committee of the 2017 (Amsterdam) World Conference on Research Integrity, and co-chair of the seventh World Conference on Reserach Integrity (Cape Town 2022).

Sonia Vasconcelos

• Name person: Sonia Vasconcelos
• Function description: Associate Professor, Science Education Program
• Organisation: Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
• Location - country: Brazil
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• Short teaser text: Dr. Sonia Vasconcelos is associate professor at the Science Education Program of the Institute of Medical Biochemistry Leopoldo de Meis (IBqM), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
• Full text: She teaches science communication, research methodology, and research ethics/integrity, and most of her research focuses on these areas. Sonia is coordinator of the Professional Masters Program in Science Education [Educação, Gestão e Difusão em Biociências] at IBqM. She is coordinator of the Advisory Council for Research Ethics at UFRJ and former member of the Research Integrity Committee of the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). She represented the field of humanities and social sciences in this committee. She has been among the organizers of Brazilian Meeting on Research Integrity, Science and Publication Ethics (BRISPE), held biannually in Brazil since 2010. She was local co-chair of the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity (4WCRI) and a member of the Steering Committee of the fifth World Conference (Amsterdam 2017).

Sun Ping

• Name person: Sun Ping
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: Institute of Science and Technical Information of China
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• Short teaser text: Dr. Sun Ping is Secretariat of the Office of Research Integrity, Ministry of Science and Technology of China.
• Full text: Dr. Sun Ping is currently engaging in the work of Secretariat of the Office of Research Integrity, Ministry of Science and Technology of China. His role includes conducting relevant researches, the administration of the MOST-ORI-sponsored projects, and the maintenance of a dedicated research integrity website in China. He worked at the Chinese Ministry of Education from 1984 to 2002, mainly engaging in international cooperation affairs.

Susan Zimmerman

• Name person: Susan Zimmerman
• Function description: Planning Committee
• Organisation: Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research, Canada
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• Short teaser text: Susan Zimmerman is the Executive Director of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research in Ottawa.
• Full text: Susan Zimmerman is the Executive Director of the Secretariat on Responsible Conduct of Research in Ottawa. SRCR is responsible for the implementation of the Tri-Agency Framework on Responsible Conduct of Research on behalf of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). The Secretariat is also responsible for the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. She is a lawyer whose career has focused on health law and public policy. A native of Montreal, Susan received her undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College, civil law and common law degrees from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto. Her professional experience includes positions as a senior research associate at the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University, Director of Legislation and Law Reform at the Canadian Bar Association, legal counsel at Health Canada and Director of Research for the Law Commission of Canada. Prior to her appointment to the Secretariat in September, 2007, Ms Zimmerman was a member of the Health Law Group at the Toronto office of a national law firm, where she represented health care institutions and a variety of health care professionals. Ms Zimmerman has also been a university lecturer in health law and ethics and a member of research ethics boards.