Wiley appoints Jessica Kowalski as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research, effective May 11, 2026

Kowalski joins from Microsoft, where she held full P&L accountability for a large-scale global services business. She brings more than two decades of experience leading knowledge, data, research publishing, and AI-enabled businesses, including senior roles at Amazon Web Services and RELX.

Over the past two years, Wiley has partnered with major technology companies and built strategic relationships with leading AI innovators to integrate the company's authoritative content into responsible AI development. Kowalski's appointment advances the next phase of this strategy by translating Wiley's AI and content leadership into products and business models for research publishing.

Kowalski succeeds Jay Flynn and joins a leadership team that recently added Armughan Rafat as Chief AI and Data Services Officer, reflecting Wiley's broader effort to build capabilities for leading the industry's AI evolution.