Michelle Willmers has a background in academic and scholarly publishing and has worked as an institutional project manager in scholarly communication since 2008. Prior to that, she worked as an academic journal editor and publishing manager. She was a senior team member in the Shuttleworth Foundation Open Educational Resources initiative, Programme Manager of the IDRC Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme, and Project Manager of the OpenUCT Initiative. She also was a project manager and researcher in the World Wide Web Foundation’s Open Data in Developing Countries initiative and the Curation and Publishing Manager of the Global South Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project. She is currently the Publishing and Implementation Manager of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development project in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at UCT.