Bonnie Lawlor is Executive Director of NFAIS, an international membership organisation of approximately 50 of the world's leading information providers. Prior to this, Bonnie was Senior Vice President and General Manager of ProQuest's Library Division where she was responsible for the development and worldwide sales and marketing of their products to academic, public and government libraries. Before ProQuest, Bonnie was Executive Vice President of the Database Publishing Division at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI - now Thomson Scientific) where she was responsible for product development, production, publisher relations, editorial content, and worldwide sales and marketing of all of ISI's products and services.
Bonnie is active in the American Chemical Society, currently serving as a Councilor for the Division of Chemical Information, a member of the Committee on Nominations and Elections, and a member of the Task Force on Chemistry in the Library. She is also a past chairman of the American Chemical Society's Committee on Copyrights. She is currently on the Board of PALINET, one of the major library consortia in the Unites States. She has served as a Board and Executive Committee Member of the Information Industry Association (IIA), and as a Board Member of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T).
Ms Lawlor earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Chestnut Hill College (Philadelphia), an M.S. in chemistry from St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), and an MBA from the Wharton School, (University of Pennsylvania).