Steven Heffner

Steven Heffner is the Managing Director, Publications, for IEEE, where he is responsible for the strategic vision and general operations of the institute’s portfolio of learned journals, books (through IEEE Press), and magazines, including Spectrum and The Institute. Steven and the publication's leadership team work with IEEE’s dedicated volunteers to develop and execute strategic priorities for the publishing program that advance the IEEE’s objectives, meet the practical needs of researchers and engineers in academia and industry, and meet the highest standards of scholarly integrity.

Before joining IEEE in 2020, Steven was Vice President of Product Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, with direct responsibility for the Lippincott line of journals in medicine and nursing, the medical education and practice book collection, the institutional research platform Ovid, and other digital solutions for education, medical practice, and industry. Prior to Wolters Kluwer, Steven held various editorial and management positions in the trade, business, and policy sectors.

Steven has served on the Executive Council of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers, the board of the scholarly dark archive CLOCKSS, and co-chair of the PROSE Awards for excellence in scholarly and professional publishing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Haverford College.