Go to OpenReview News homepageAnnouncing the OpenReview Foundation: a new chapter for long-term independence
Article: After seven successful years as a fiscally sponsored project of [Code for Science & Society](https://www.codeforsociety.org/) (CS\&S), OpenReview is proud to announce the creation of a new independent nonprofit organization, the OpenReview Foundation, incorporated in Delaware and recognized as a 501(c)(3) public charity.
We are deeply grateful to CS\&S for their invaluable partnership since our early days. Their professional support in finance, payroll, benefits, and nonprofit administration allowed the OpenReview team to focus on what mattered most—building the platform, serving the research community, and advancing the mission of open and transparent peer review. CS\&S provided the structure and guidance we needed as we grew from a small experiment supporting ICLR into a global infrastructure serving some of the world’s leading scientific venues.
OpenReview has now reached a level of maturity, scale, and responsibility that calls for its own governance and strategic autonomy. As a core part of the research ecosystem, we want to ensure that OpenReview will not only thrive in the present but endure for the next hundred years and beyond—as a stable, mission-driven, community-led institution supporting openness, fairness, and innovation in scholarly communication.
The Board of Directors of the OpenReview Foundation brings together a balance of technical leadership, academic perspective, and nonprofit governance expertise:
* Andrew McCallum (OpenReview Founder; Professor, UMass Amherst) — Chair
* Nihar Shah (Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University) — Secretary
* Alina Beygelzimer (Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo Research; NeurIPS 2021 Program Co-chair) — Treasurer
* Melisa Bok (OpenReview CTO)
* Kamal Nigam (former Site Director of Google Pittsburgh; founder of a major Pittsburgh nonprofit)
Together, this board, and its future additional members, will guide OpenReview’s strategic vision, ensure long-term sustainability, and maintain our commitment to open-source technology, transparent governance, and service to the global research community.
We thank the team at CS\&S for helping us reach this point, and we’re excited to begin this new chapter as the OpenReview Foundation—continuing our work to make scientific communication more open, collaborative, and enduring.
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