Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 17, 2025

John Mark Willinsky, C.M.
Vancouver, British Columbia and San Francisco, California, United States of America

John Willinsky has devoted his academic career to fostering public access to research. Underwritten by his scholarship on learned publishing, the Public Knowledge Project he founded has developed the world’s most widely deployed scholarly publishing platform, used by journals in 150 countries and 60 languages to publish freely accessible research.