Alice Ra’anan is the Director of Government Relations and Public Policy for the American Physiological Society (APS). She graduated high school from Loretto in Kansas City and earned a B.S. in Foreign Service from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. Alice went on to earn a masters level certificate from the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, which she attended through a Rotary Foundation Fellowship. Her wide-ranging background includes three years in the U.S. Foreign Service as Deputy Press Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague where she worked for then-Ambassador L. Paul Bremer and three years as a Washington correspondent for the New York News World.

Before coming to the APS in 1992, Ms. Ra’anan worked for 5 years in the Public Affairs Office of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Her areas of expertise include federal research funding and the humane use of animals in research. She has been involved in APS policy discussions of publications access issues and is a co-author along with Martin Frank and Margaret Reich of “A Not-for-Profit Publisher’s Perspective on Open Access,” published in Serials Review in 2004.