Honorary Patron
- Raj S. Paroda, Chairman Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS)
Honorary Chairs
- Tusar Kanti Behera, Director, ICAR-IIHR & President, SPH, Bengaluru
- S.V. Suresha, Vice-Chancellor, UAS, Bengaluru
- Basheerhamad Shadrach Director, CEMCA, New Delhi
- Anuradha Agrawal, Project Director, ICAR-DKMA, New Delhi
- Geetha Vani Rayasam, Director, CSIR-NIScPR, New Delhi
- Devika P Madalli, Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar
- Nirmala Menon, Professor, SHSS, IIT Indore
- Nishant Chakravorty, Chairperson, INYAS, New Delhi
International Overseeing Committee
- Arianna Becerril-García, Executive Director, Redalyc/Co-founder, AmeliCA, México
- Dominique Babini, Open Science Advisor, CLACSO, Argentina
- Lidia Borrell-Damián, Secretary General, Science Europe, Belgium – Co-Chair
- Zeynep Varoglu, Programme Specialist, Communication and Information Sector, UNESCO, Paris, France
- Zoe Ancion, Head of International Affairs, Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
- Eurico Wongo Gungula, Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs, University Óscar Ribas, Angola
- Mylène Deschênes, Director of Ethics and Legal Affairs, Fonds de recherche du Quebec, Canada
- Johan Rooryck, Coordinator, European Diamond OA Capacity Hub, Belgium
- Joanna Ball, Managing Director, DOAJ, Denmark
- Ashley Farley Senior Officer of Knowledge & Research Services, Gates Foundation, USA
- David Oliva Uribe, Senior Consultant, UNESCO, Italy
- Bregt Saenen, Senior Policy Officer, Science Europe, Belgium
- Marco Antonio Estrada Medina, International Program Coordinator Redalyc, Mexico
- Madhan Muthu, Director, Library, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India
- Arbain Arbain, Universitas Widya Gama Mahakam, Samarinda, Indonesia
- Monica Sharma, Programme Coordinator, CEMCA, India
- Sridhar Gutam, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru, India – Co-Chair
Organising Secretaries
- G. Karunkaran, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIHR; General Secretary, SPH
- T. K. Nagarathna, Coordinator, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru
- Anjani Kumar Jha, Principal Scientist, ICAR-DKMA; Zonal Councillor (North), SPH
- Sreenivasa Rao, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru
- Naveen Kumar, Head, Division of Flower Crops, ICAR-IIHR, Bengaluru
- Kasturi Mandal, Principal Scientist CSIR-NIScPR, New Delhi
- Siuli Mitra, Director, IndiaBioscience, Bengaluru
- Sridhar Gutam, Principal Scientist, ICAR-IIHR; Joint Secretary, SPH; Convenor, Open Access India
Co-Organising Secretaries
- Madhan Muthu, Director, Global Library, O.P. Jindal Global University
- Moumita Koley, Senior Research Analyst, DST-CPR, IISc & Research Fellow, RoRI, UK
- Veda Krishnan, Senior Scientist, ICAR-IARI; Former Secretary, INYAS
- Kutubuddin Molla, Senior Scientist, ICAR-CRRI; INSA-Associate Fellow, INYAS-Member
- Pragya Chaube, Assistant Professor, UPES
- Sriparna Chatterjee, Researcher, CSIR-IMMT & INYAS-Member
- Sreshtha Mondal, Program Manager, IndiaBioscience
Organising Institutions
- Society for Promotion of Horticulture (SPH), Bengaluru
- Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
- CSIR–National Institute Of Science Communication and Policy Research (CSIR–NIScPR)
- DST-Centre for Policy Research, IISc (DST-CPR)
- ICAR–Directorate of Knowledge Management in Agriculture (ICAR-DKMA)
- ICAR–Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR-IIHR)
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS)
- Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) Centre
- JPN National Centre of Excellence in the Humanities, IIT Indore
- University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru (UASB)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
- AmeliCA/Redalyc
- Centre Franco-Indien pour la Promotion de la Recherche Avancée (CEFIPRA)
- CLACSO-Latin American Council of Social Sciences
- cOAlition S
- Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
- Gates Foundation
- German Centre for Research and Innovation- DWIH New Delhi
- OPERAS – European Diamond Capacity Hub
- Science Europe
- Universidade Óscar Ribas (UOR), Angola
- DST-CPR, IISc
- IndiaBioscience
- O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU)
- Open Access India (OAI)
- UPES University

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