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Laura Brown is the Executive Vice President of ITHAKA, and the Managing Director of JSTOR, a digital library where scholars, students, and the public can access thousands of journals, books, images, and other content as well as tools that promote research, teaching, sharing, and contribution.

Laura previously served as the Managing Director of Ithaka S+R where she authored the ITHAKA report SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Publishing in A Digital Age, and oversaw work on a number of research programs and consulting projects in higher education. Prior to joining ITHAKA, Laura was the president of Oxford SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Press, USA, where she spent most of her professional career.

She has led a variety of publishing divisions, including scholarly, professional, reference, trade, and textbooks operations, and helped Oxford to make the transition to digital publishing. Currently on the boards of Yale SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Press Board and The Gordon Parks Foundation, she has served on the boards of the SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ of Pennsylvania Libraries and The MIT Press.

She holds a bachelor of arts from Goucher College, a master of arts from Johns Hopkins SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, and a master of fine arts in painting from Indiana SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.