Imma Subirats has worked as senior information management officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since 2006. She works on the advice of standards, tools and good practices for the management and exchange of data to academic, research, private and governmental organizations worldwide. She is also actively promoting open science, open access and open data in the agricultural research context, particularly leading the AIMS community and portal, as a editor of the Open knowledge in agricultural development (OKAD) at F1000Research, and co-chairing the Interest Group of Agricultural Data (IGAD) at the Research Data Alliance (RDA). Since 2015 she is the AGORA Program Manager. AGORA is designed to enhance the scholarship of the many thousands of students, faculty and researchers in agriculture and life sciences in the developing world. AGORA is one of the four programmes that make up Research4Life: AGORA, HINARI, OARE and ARDI.