Most of the governance board is in Europe: http://www.mathoa.org/sample-page/governance-structure/ http://www.mathoa.org/sample-page/governance-structure/ Dep

Most of the governance board is in Europe: http://www.mathoa.org/sample-page/governance-structure/ http://www.mathoa.org/sample-page/governance-structure/ Depending on the country, the non compete will be invalid. e.g. UK where this would be listed as 'restraint of trade' if the previous publisher was not still paying the editors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Europe Also, they're only valid within the same country so if the editors happened to move country then the non-compete would have been invalidated.