Laurel L. Haak, known as Laure, was the founding Executive Director (2012-2020) of ORCID, an international non-profit which generates and maintains unique identifiers for individuals to participate in the research lifecycle.

Haak received BS and MS degrees in Biology from Stanford University in 1988.

She received her doctorate in neurosciences from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1997.

[1] Haak served as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Health, as editor and manager of the Postdoctoral Network for Science's Next Wave, and as Chief Science Officer at Discovery Logic, an IT startup company later acquired by Thomson Reuters.

[5] As of 2020, Haak is the Founder and CEO of Mighty Red Barn,[6] a consultancy that specializes in research infrastructure.