Cecile Swiatek Cassafieres

Cécile Swiatek Cassafieres is Director of the library at the université Paris Nanterre, France. She is interested in accessible knowledge, information skills, pedagogy and digital innovation in higher education. Member of the Executive Board of the European league of research libraries (libereurope.eu) and SPARCEurope, former Secretary General of the French academic libraries association ADBU (adbu.fr, 2016-2021), she takes a curious and critical look at Open Education issues through her work at SPARCEurope, OEGlobal / OEGlobal Francophone and with the UNESCO. From 2020 to 2022, she participated in the French EDUCAUSE delegation. Since 2021, she has been mandated as a permanent national expert on Open Educational Resources (OER) in the French International Open Science Network (ReiSo) for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MESR). Expert on both the UNESCO Recommendations on OER (2019) and Open Science (2021), she has also been bringing her skilled and accurate vision as an expert with the French National Open Science Fund (FNSO, Calls for projects and SCOSS) and as an independent expert with the UNESCO's global partnership on Open Science since 2023. In 2022, she joined the recherche.data.gouv.fr Steering Committee and she is leading the ADN Nanterre Data Management Cluster.