CAUL Office

Jane Angel
Chief Executive Officer

Jane Angel is CAUL’s Chief Executive Officer, a role she has held since November 2022. Jane leads membership and sector engagement, advocacy, operational planning, and the leadership of the CAUL Office. Prior to this, Jane held senior leadership roles in Australia and the UK in academic, public, Commonwealth and state libraries. Previous roles include Deputy Director, Resources & Technical Services, University of South Australia Library, where she was also Manager, Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library, Deputy Director, Research Information Resources & Infrastructure at Defence Science and Technology, Department of Defence, and Manager, Client Services, Courts Administration Authority, South Australia. 

Jane holds a BA (Hons) First Class from the Flinders University of South Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from RMIT and a Graduate Certificate in Scientific Leadership from the University of Melbourne. She is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) and an Associate Member of the Australian Library and Information Association. Jane lives and works in Adelaide, on Kaurna land. 

Angus Cook
Director, Content Procurement

Angus Cook is the Director, Content Procurement at CAUL, leading the Content Procurement Service, which operates the CAUL Consortium. He is responsible for designing and implementing programs to meet the service’s strategic objectives and is CAUL’s key negotiator for content agreements for the Australian and New Zealand higher education sectors.

Under Angus’ leadership, the Content Procurement Service has significantly expanded its open access agreements, enhancing the availability of scholarly content across various publishers and advancing open scholarship in the region. His work in strategic content procurement, access improvement initiatives, and continuous improvement of workflows and communications has been crucial in supporting CAUL’s content procurement activities. Angus has over two decades of experience in content procurement. Before joining CAUL in 2020, he worked in various sales and licensing roles for large publishers and library systems vendors. He holds a Master’s
Degree in Information Management from RMIT. Angus lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land. 

Lisa Kruesi
Lead, Governance & Operations

Dr Lisa Kruesi is the Lead, Governance & Operations. She supports the CEO with CAUL’s governance, its Board and committees to ensure efficient and timely business activities and events for the CAUL Office.

Lisa completed her PhD with the Department of Human-Centred Computing at Monash University in 2021. She has held invited researcher roles at Monash University, focusing on information management and digital transformation of industry sectors. Lisa is a National Advisory Group for CareSearch member and served as a Board Director for Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd from 2015 to 2024. She co-founded the Australian Evidence-Based Practice Librarians’ Institute in 2010 and was an Institute co-convenor for over a decade. With extensive experience in scholarly publishing and as a senior health sciences library manager, Lisa worked has worked at four major Australian universities and CSIRO. Lisa lives and works on Bunurong Country.

Arthur Smith
Associate Director, Content Procurement

Dr. Arthur Smith is CAUL’s Associate Director, Content Procurement. His work focuses on negotiating and implementing open access agreements across the CAUL Consortium. Arthur joined CAUL in 2022.

Arthur has extensive experience shaping open access policy and has held various roles in Australia and the United Kingdom. After completing his PhD and postdoctoral studies in physical and computational chemistry at The University of Queensland, he moved to the UK in 2013, and joined the University of Cambridge, as their Deputy Manager of Scholarly Communication. On return to Australia in 2021, he joined Griffith University as the Manager of Research Analytics and Policy. He has also contributed to industry groups such as the Research Council UK’s Open Access Practitioners Group, served as secretary to the UK Council of Research Repositories (UKCORR), and was a member of the cOAlition S Journal Comparison Service Advisory Panel. Arthur lives and works in Meanjin (Brisbane), on the lands of the Jagera and Turrbal people.

Dallas Mitchell
Data Analyst

Dallas Mitchell joined CAUL as a Data Analyst, after working as a data scientist within the public sector in New Zealand. Dallas’ core responsibilities at CAUL are to support the content procurement service with analytics to inform negotiations, as well as manage the statistics and analytics service to keep members up to date.

Since studying Information Systems, Dallas has been passionate about turning complex data into clear insights which are easily accessible and formatted so that anyone can understand and interpret the results. Dallas lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land.

Sonya Goldberg
Content Procurement Specialist

Sonya Goldberg undertakes procurement and consortia activities through CAUL’s Procurement Service. They bring a background in library roles spanning acquisitions, operations, and programming, with a particular interest in strategic procurement and agreements.

Working as part of CAUL’s Procurement Team, Sonya manages agreement renewal processes—liaising with vendors and institutional acquisitions staff, coordinating timelines and communications, and supporting strategic decision-making across CAUL’s consortium. Sonya has a Bachelor of Arts and Science, and a Graduate Diploma in Information and Knowledge. Sonya lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne) on Wurundjeri land.

Ash Barber
Senior Coordinator, Open Educational Resources Collective

Ash Barber is the Senior Coordinator, Open Educational Resources Collective (OER Collective). She is responsible for the OER Collective’s day-to-day operation, which includes managing the annual grants program, the Pressbooks network, and the communities of practice. Ash provides leadership, direction, and expert technical advice on discovering, adapting, publishing, describing, licensing, and reusing open educational resources.

Ash has extensive experience with and a deep commitment to open educational resources (OER) and open educational practice (OEP). She is the co-convenor of the ASCILITE OEP Special Interest Group, co-curator of the Australasian OEP Digest, and a board director for the international Open Education Conference. Ash has published and presented widely on OER, and in 2022, received a LATN Fellowship to undertake a study tour of North America to inform a project exploring practical, inclusive solutions in OER. 

Ash holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts in Creative Writing from Flinders University and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of South Australia. She joined the CAUL Office in July 2024. Ash lives and works in Adelaide, on Kaurna land.

Grace Daw
Engagement & Administration Officer

Grace Daw is the Engagement & Administration Officer at CAUL. She handles day-to-day administrative activities, including scheduling and organising in-person and online events, compiling and disseminating the CAUL Newsletter, uploading and updating web content, supporting CAUL’s communities of practice, maintaining membership lists, and providing general administrative support to CAUL Members and stakeholders.

Grace holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from The University of Adelaide and a Graduate Diploma in Information Management from the University of South Australia, completed in 2018. Grace lives and works in Adelaide, on Kaurna land