Nancy Chescheir is the Chair of COPE. She is an emeritus professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has served as Editor-in-Chief of two journals, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproducitive, Female and Child Health.
She has a career-long interest in the way complex systems work and how they try to maintain themselves. This started with human physiology and has extended now to publication ethics.