Delia Mihaila has recently taken over the role of Chief Publishing Officer for Academia.edu. In this capacity, she will be responsible for building up the publishing business of the organisation.

Previously she held various roles, including CEO and Chief Publishing Officer, within MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), a leading fully open-access publisher, whose mission is to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. MDPI offers a wide range of services, including journal and book publication, early publication at preprints.org, and conferences hosting on sciforum.net, to support scientific communities worldwide in making a positive impact on research.

Delia joined MDPI in 2013 and served in various positions within the company, including as Publishing Development Manager and Publishing Director. She held two CEO mandates within MDPI from February 2015 to April 2016 and from May 2019 to November 2022. During the 10 years at MDPI her various roles involved a wide range of responsibilities from hands-on editorial work on journals to strategic development of journals and portfolios, training of editorial staff, to operational work, expanding the organization worldwide, and doing advocacy work for the open access model.

She holds a Master of Arts in International Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. Before joining MDPI she worked as Journal Publishing Manager for John Wiley & Sons in the UK, where she was responsible for the strategic development and performance of a large portfolio of journals within the health sciences division. Before obtaining her Master’s degree in the UK, she worked as Business Development Manager for a medical publisher in Romania and acquired project management experience being involved in several PHARE European projects.

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