Rebecca Koskela has 25 years of experience in scientific computing in industry, research labs and universities. For the past 9 years she has served as Executive Director of DataONE, a virtual organization funded by the National Science Foundation with members located throughout the US and Europe. As Executive Director, she is the liaison between DataONE and many other international research data infrastructure and research projects. In addition to this, she has contributed to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) since its inception, co-leading three of the metadata groups. Rebecca’s elected positions include the co-chair of the EarthCube Technology & Architecture Committee and deputy chair of the EarthCube Leadership Council. She is also chair of the Earth Science Information Partners Finance Committee.