Eve Gray

Eve Gray is a South African publishing professional, consultant, and researcher specializing in scholarly communication, open access, copyright, and the dissemination of African research. She studied French and English at Rhodes University and earned a master’s degree in English literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her publishing career included leadership roles at Wits University Press, Juta’s Adult and Higher Education Publishing division, and the University of Cape Town Press; she has also been affiliated with the University of Cape Town’s Centre for Educational Technology.

Gray has written extensively on scholarly publishing, copyright reform, educational resources, and open access in Africa. She is a contributing author to Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities (2021), edited by Lucy Montgomery and John Hartley, among others, and authored research including “Research for development and the role of ‘grey literature’ in southern African research production” and “The Neo-Colonial Political Economy of Scholarly Publishing.”