Working in collaboration with library consortia in more than 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe, Iryna Kuchma advocates for open access to research results, facilitates the development and implementation of open science policies and infrastructures, and provides support and training. She sits on the boards of Confederation of Open Access Repositories, the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations and the Directory of Open Access Journals Council. She also co-chairs the OpenAIRE Training and Support Standing Committee, serves on the EOSC Association Data stewardship curricula and career paths Task Force and CODATA Policy and Legal Working Group. In addition, she serves on the advisory boards of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures Project (COPIM) and International Open Access Week and she is a member of the Coalition Publi.ca International Committee and the DSpace Community Advisory Team. In 2013, Iryna received the Electronic Publishing Trust (EPT) for Development Annual Award, in recognition of her ‘efforts in the furtherance of open access to scholarly publications in the developing and emerging countries’. More details: https://www.eifl.net/experts/Iryna_K.