Peter Suber is the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington D.C. focusing on information policy. He’s also a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), and a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D. from Northwestern University. He's the author of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and editor of the Open Access News weblog. He was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, and the boards of several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. Lingua Franca magazine named him one of “Academia’s 20 Most Wired Faculty” in 1999. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, writing, speaking, and other forms of advocacy.