Jonathan Clark

Biography

Jonathan Clark is the Managing Agent for the DOI Foundation which is a not-for-profit membership organisation that manages the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) System and is the registration authority for the ISO standard (ISO 26324). The DOI system provides a technical and social infrastructure for the registration and use of persistent interoperable identifiers. Jonathan Clark is one of three co-chairs of the Research Data Alliance Interest Group on Persistent Identifiers. When not doing something PID related, he works as an independent advisor on strategy and innovation. He is also a Guest Lecturer and External Examiner for the Masters in Imagineering programme at the Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. Prior to all of this Jonathan worked at Elsevier for 20 years in various positions in publishing, marketing and technology, and before that Shell Research. He holds a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Jonathan was Chair and Director of the DOI Foundation from 2004-2010. He lives mostly in Croatia and occasionally in the Netherlands.