Mr. Eric Moran is the Associate Vice President of Research at SAGE Publishing where he oversees the Social Science and STM journals strategy as well as the global peer review group. He joined SAGE in 1998 and has worked in a number of roles in the journals division before becoming associate vice president in 2018. He has been heavily involved in open science and led the launch of SAGE Open, the first broad-spectrum open access journal dedicated specifically to the social and behavioral sciences. He has spoken as an industry expert at academic and librarian conferences globally.

SAGE was founded in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. An independent company, SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 800 new books each year.