Ryan Merkley

Ryan Merkley is a Canadian businessman, and the COO of NPR. Previous to NPR he was Chief of Staff to the office of the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and before that, the CEO of the American non-profit organization Creative Commons. He is an advocate for open licenses, net neutrality and open data initiatives in the public sector. Merkley is the Chair of the Open Worm Foundation board of directors and was trustee at the Quetico Foundation. He writes and speaks on issues such as the sharing economy, academic publishing and legal infrastructure for sharing content.