Dr Najmeh Shaghaei is a member of LIBER Leadership Programmes Working Group and also LIBER Conference Programme Committee. She has nearly 27 years of leadership development experience within the context of the university library, giving career development counseling, and as executive and auditor of ISO Standard in different countries

Dr Shaghaei currently works at the University Library of Southern Denmark as Head of Campus Library, where she also has oversight of the Internationalization. In addition, she is a member of Advisory Board for Open Knowledge Maps Association in Austria. Najmeh holds a PhD in Business Management and has a background as a researcher in Change Management. She is currently working on a number of international projects and doing research related to leadership, Knowledge Management and Open Science.

Dr Shaghaei has extensive experience in leadership, Change Management and Knowledge Management and has written and spoken on leadership and change management, the future of research libraries, diversity, and the role research libraries play to advance productivity in teaching and research.