Dr. Martin Halbert is a librarian and digital library innovator whose career has featured decades of experimental work in developing research data repositories and collaborative institutional change projects. Halbert served as co-principal investigator for the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, one of the most prominent international sources of scholarly information for researching the history of trafficking in enslaved Africans, and was the founder of Educopia, a non-profit organization that promotes knowledge sharing and capacity building among research organizations, communities, and individuals. He served as dean of libraries at two universities, and is now a tenured professor. Most recently, he completed four years as a program director and science advisor for the U.S. National Science Foundation, where he worked on open science policy for the agency.