Judy Bai is an expert in scholarly communications as well as research workflow tools and data in China. She is currently Director of Business Development, China for Digital Science, where she is responsible for shaping the company’s Greater China strategy and delivering its products, services and thought leadership to customers and partners there.

Judy has 15 years’ experience in scholarly publishing spanning various aspects of the industry. Before joining Digital Science, she headed the society publishing program for China in Nature Publishing Group and Springer Nature. There she played a key role in expanding the Nature Partner Journal program, developing partnerships with a wide range of leading Chinese universities and institutes. Prior to that, she spent seven years at Elsevier’s Beijing Office in various publishing related roles. She is based in Shanghai.