Eunice Mercado is a fellow at the Data Innovation Lab. She is a former Open & Equitable Program Manager at the Open Research Funders Group, former Civic Science Fellow (2021-2023), and former Deputy Director for Science and Technology Policy at the Mexican Council for Science and Technology. She has worked in the public and private sectors to help government agencies and philanthropic funders develop open research policies and academic institutions to align their incentives to this end.