Dr Danny Kingsley is an Australian-based thought leader in the international scholarly communication space. She commenced in the position of Community Manager for the Southern Hemisphere at OAPEN in August 2023. She has consulted for multiple Australian universities since returning from the UK where she worked as the Deputy Director of Cambridge University Libraries from 2015-2019. Her research as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, at ANU, centres on scholarly communication, including the academic reward structure, scholarly infrastructure and open access advocacy. She established Open Access Australasia in 2013. She sits on multiple committees, including the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Data in Science and the FORCE11 Board of Directors.