Emily Ford, Director, Open Research Funders Group
Emily Ford is Director of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG). In this role, she oversees the coalition of nearly two dozen philanthropic organizations around the globe involved with charitable, educational, or other activities serving the public good and committed to open sharing of research outputs.
Prior to joining SPARC, Ford was at Portland State University as the urban & public affairs librarian at the Branford Price Millar Library since 2011. She also served as president of the PSU-American Association of University Professors from 2022-2025.
In 2008, Ford co-founded In the Library with the Lead Pipe, a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal that covers topics about libraries. She is the author of “Peer Review: A Critical Primer and Practical Course” (Portland State University, Press Books 2022) and “Stories of Open: Opening peer review through narrative inquiry,” (Association of College and Research Libraries Press, 2021).
Ford has a Master of Information Science and a Master of Library Science degree from Indiana University Bloomington.
Ford is based in Portland, Oregon.