Midnight at the Casablanca
Episodes
Liz Ferguson
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Ferguson is the Senior Vice President for Research Publishing at Wiley. For this season finale episode, Paul and Lauren have joined forces to brin...
Rebecca McLeod
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rebecca McLeod is Managing Director of the Harvard Data Science Review, and current President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. In this candid...
Christian Grubak
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christian Grubak is CEO of ChronosHub, the Copenhagen-based publishing workflow company acquired by the American Chemical Society in 2023. In this en...
Abhi Arun
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Abhi Arun took over as the CEO of the publishing services company TNQ in 2016 and led the company to a successful exit in 2014. Following the sale, Ab...
Thane Kerner
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Thane Kerner, the co-founder of Silverchair and Hum, has been at the forefront of technological innovation in scholarly publishing from the earliest e...
Timo Hannay
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Timo Hannay has had a profound impact on scholarly communications, playing a pivotal role in nurturing a generation of startups and new technologies t...
Vicky Williams
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vicky Williams is CEO of Emerald Publishing, the global publisher of academic journals and books. In this candid episode, Vicky speaks with Lauren Ka...
Andrew Preston
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Preston is one of scholarly communications' most prolific entrepreneurs, co-founding three successful startups--Publons, Cassyni, and Sig...
Dana Compton
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dana Compton is Publisher and MD at ASCE, one of the largest technical membership organizations in the US. In this revealing episode, Dana speaks with...
Richard Bennett
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Bennett has held sales and commercial leadership roles at many of scholarly publishing’s largest publishers and most promising startups. In ...
Wendy Queen
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wendy Queen is Chief Transformation Officer at Johns Hopkins University Press, having previously spent a decade at the helm of Project MUSE. In the fi...
Todd Toler
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Todd Toler is VP of Product and Market Strategy at Wiley, his professional home for more than 20 years. In a wide-ranging conversation with Paul Peter...
Welcome to Season 2
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season 2 of Midnight at the Casablanca! Paul Peters welcomes a new co-host and previews an expanded season ahead.
Paul Peters
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the Season 1 Finale of Midnight at the Casablanca, the tables are turned and your usual host Paul Peters is interviewed by Lauren Kane. In this wid...
Damian Pattinson
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Damian Pattinson is the Executive Director of eLife, an independent nonprofit committed to improving the way research is reviewed and communicated. In...
Will Schweitzer
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Will Schweitzer is CEO of Silverchair, the largest independent platform and workflow provider for the scholarly publishing industry. In this extended ...
Sami Benchekroun
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sami Benchekroun is Co-Founder and CEO of Morressier, a venture backed startup for scholarly workflow tools. In an entertaining episode with one of th...
Milan Wielinga
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Milan Wielinga has served as advisor on some of scholarly publishing’s largest and most transformational investments, mergers, and acquisitions, and...
Ann Michael
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ann Michael has had a storied career working across numerous industries grappling with digital transformation—and she’s just getting started. The ...
Sven Fund
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As CEO of De Gruyter, MD of Knowledge Unlatched, and now advisor and investor to dozens of the industry’s top startups, Sven Fund has more than a fe...
Lauren Kane
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lauren Kane is CEO of BioOne, the nonprofit collaborative for more than 150 independent scientific societies worldwide. In this inaugural episode, thi...
Welcome to the Show
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Midnight at the Casablanca from your host Paul Peters. New adventure or ego trip? Tune in and find out.