Denise Rosemary Nicholson (BA HDipLib(UNISA), LLM (WITS)) retired from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 2020, after nearly 38 years of professional service in various library posts. She has 26 years of experience in copyright issues, open access and scholarly communication. She currently runs a consultancy called Scholarly Horizons.

She is well-recognised internationally, regionally and in South Africa, for her advocacy and promotion of access to knowledge, open access and copyright awareness, and her campaign for more balanced copyright laws in South Africa. She has been a member of various copyright projects and committees in South Africa and abroad and is still an expert advisor to some of them. She has had input into different policies and other documents for international, regional and local organisations, including WIPO and the UK Government.

She has published and presented on various topics and has spoken at more than 100 conferences worldwide. She has received a number of prestigious awards, the most recent being the SALI Trust-LIASA Lifetime Achievement Award and the UNISA Chancellor's Calabash Award for Outstanding Educator.

Her full CV and list of publications and other awards can be found here: https://scholarlyhorizons.co.za/about-denise/

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