Laura Brown is the Executive Vice President of ITHAKA and Managing Director of JSTOR, a research and teaching platform for the academic community.

Before moving to JSTOR, Laura served as the Managing Director of Ithaka S+R, the strategy and research arm of ITHAKA dedicated to helping the scholarly community make a successful and sustainable transition to digital and network technologies. At Ithaka S+R, Laura oversaw work on a number of research programs and consulting projects, including the sustainability of academic initiatives, new models for library collaboration, changing faculty attitudes and publishing behaviors, open courseware and university-sponsored online courses, and new e-book publishing models for university presses. Laura is the author of the ITHAKA report “University Publishing in A Digital Age”.

Prior to joining ITHAKA, Laura was the President of Oxford University Press, USA, where she spent most of her professional career. She has led a variety of publishing divisions, including scholarly, professional, reference, trade, and textbooks operations, and helped Oxford to make the transition to digital publishing. She has served on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and the MIT Press, and currently serves on the board of Yale University Press, and the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation.

She holds a BA from Goucher College, an MA from Johns Hopkins University, and an MFA in Painting from Indiana University.