Publishing Advisory Board
Our Publishing Advisory Board provides the Centre with professional support from senior members of the publishing industry, including our alumni
Jonathan Glasspool
Industry Advisory Board Chair
Jonathan Glasspool is Chair of Bath Spa University & Non-Executive Director at Edinburgh University Press. He was formerly Managing Director at Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Previous jobs include Publisher with Reed Elsevier in Singapore, Melbourne and Oxford.
Kasim Ali
Kasim Ali works as an editor at Amazon Publishing. He has previously worked at Penguin Random House. He was longlisted for the B4ME Short Story Prize (hosted by his now UK publisher Fourth Estate), and Good Intentions, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the Mo Siewcherran Prize. He has also had a short story published in The Good Journal.
Al Bertrand
Al Bertrand is Director of Georgetown University Press. Previously, he was Editor in Chief and Associate Publishing Director at Princeton University Press. His other roles include Editorial Director, Social Science and Humanities Books at Wiley-Blackwell and Publisher at Blackwell Publishing in Oxford.
Emma Bourne
Emma Bourne is the Managing Director of the Schools Division, Macmillan Education. She has worked in a variety of roles in the international educational publishing sector for Heinemann, Nelson Thornes as International Director, and Board member and Oxford University Press as International Development Director, ELT before joining Macmillan in December 2013. Prior to that she worked for a company specialising in supply to the International Schools market. She is the current … More...
Andre Breedt
Nielsen Book Research International
Andre Breedt is Managing Director at Nielsen Book Research International
Margaret Busby
Margaret Busby CBE, Hon. FRSL (Nana Akua Ackon) is a much respected cultural figure internationally. Born in Ghana and educated in the UK, she graduated from Bedford College, London University, before becoming Britain’s then youngest and first black woman publisher when she co-founded Allison & Busby in the late 1960s. At A&B, she published notable authors including Buchi Emecheta, Nuruddin Farah, Rosa Guy, C. L. R. James, Geoffrey Grigson, Michael … More...
Mary Cannam
Mary is Managing Director of Faber and Faber, and has been at Faber since 2003. Prior roles at Faber include Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director. She is also a Trustee of New Writing North.
Before Faber Mary spent 9 years with Waterstone’s in a variety of roles, including Branch Manager and roles in the Operations Department, at Head Office. She also worked at HarperCollins for a year. She was … More...
Catherine Clarke
Catherine Clarke was Publishing Director of the Trade Books Department at OUP for several years before she joined Felicity Bryan as an agent in 2001. She represents a broad range of writers of serious non-fiction, including biography, philosophy, science, and history. She also represents a number of bestselling and prizewinning writers for children and young adults. She became Managing Director of Felicity Bryan Associates in 2010. In 2017 she was … More...
Christie Henry
Christie Henry is Director of Princeton University Press, an independent non-profit publisher with teams and offices in Oxford, Beijing and Princeton. PUP has a global and diverse book publishing portfolio and was the first university press to launch an audio imprint and a speakers agency. Christie serves on boards and committees of the Association of American Publishers, the Association of University Presses, the International Publishers Assocation, several university and independent presses … More...
Jamie Hodder-Williams
Jamie started his career working for a small chain of Scottish booksellers, before joining Hodder & Stoughton as a Management trainee, working in a variety of roles in editorial and sales before becoming Managing Director of Hodder & Stoughton publishing major brands like Stephen King, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and prize-winners including David Mitchell and David Nicholls, and Non-Fiction, where for the Hodder & Stoughton have published the biggest books of … More...
Emma House
Emma House is an international publishing consultant, advising clients on international business development, event curation, project management and research. Previously she was Deputy CEO for the Publishers Association where she worked for 11 years, and held senior positions at the London Book Fair. Emma has a BA (Hons) degree in Spanish and Business Studies and is also a trustee of the Publishing Training Centre and a Board member of the … More...
Helen Jennings
Helen is Head of Content Strategy and Vendor Management at Pearson. She started her publishing career in journals at Springer/Oxford University before moving to Oxford University Press in 2006. She has led multiple successful teams from across production, digital, and manufacturing in different geographies. In her current role at Pearson she leads a team of cross-functional experts in supplier management, creative design and media, and workflow and process improvement for … More...
Iain MacGregor
Iain MacGregor has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years. He has led successful non-fiction teams that have published a variety of both domestic and international bestselling authors, delivering bestsellers for Bruce Springsteen, Hillary Clinton, Professor Brian Cox, Bob Woodward, Simon Schama, John Nichol, Benjamin Zephaniah and Sir Ranulph Fiennes. He is the author of To Hell on a Bike (2014) and Checkpoint Charlie (2019).
Miriam Maus
Miriam Maus is Chief Publishing Officer at IOP Publishing (IOPP). As one of the world’s leading learned society publishers, IOPP has a portfolio of journals, books, conference proceedings and science news resources in the physical sciences. Prior to joining IOPP in 2021 Miriam worked for Wiley, and before that Blackwell Publishing, across a variety of operational and editorial roles, most recently as Vice President & Managing Director, Editorial Management. Miriam is a … More...
Jeremy North
Jeremy North is the British-born managing director of book publishing at Taylor & Francis Group, which includes the prestigious Routledge imprint. Based in London, he is responsible for book publishing activities in the UK, US, China, India, and other global locations. He has over 25 years’ publishing experience in roles in Sales, Editorial, Finance & Accounting, and general management. He has overseen the acquisition of more than 15 other publishing … More...
Jasmine Richards
Jasmine Richards has a deep connection to Oxford and read English Literature at Lady Margaret Hall in the early noughties. She is the author of over 15 books for children including the middle-grade novel The Unmorrow Curse being published in 2022 and Aziza’s Secret Fairy Door series published under a pen name. She is a former publisher who has worked at Puffin and OUP children’s books and she has edited hundreds … More...
Jenny Ridout
Jenny Ridout is Managing Director of Bloomsbury Non-Consumer publishing, which includes Academic, Professional, Special Interest and Bloomsbury Digital Resources. Prior to this role Jenny had global responsibility as head of Bloomsbury’s academic publishing where she oversaw the integration of several acquisitions. She has many years of experience in digital resource publishing, being responsible for the creation and rapid growth of Drama Online as Project Director, for which she … More...
David Taylor
Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group
Group Managing Director, Lightning Source UK Ltd
David Taylor was named Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group and Group Managing Director, Lightning Source UK in February 2010. Mr. Taylor joined Lightning Source UK Ltd. in 2003 as Business Development Director and was named Managing Director at the end of 2003. In 2006, he took on the newly created role … More...
Jacks Thomas
Jacks Thomas joined Reed Exhibitions in 2013 as Director, The London Book Fair, having worked in the corporate and arts public relations sectors for over 20 years. At The London Book Fair, the world’s leading spring book event, Thomas’ role includes the ongoing development of the Fair as the leading marketplace for rights negotiation and the sale and distribution of content for one of the world’s most creative industries, at … More...
Claire Thomas
Claire Thomas has worked in publishing for over twenty years. She is the Organisational Development and Talent Director for Penguin Random House UK, the UK’s leading publisher and home to some of the world’s most brilliant authors: from bestselling writers and bold illustrators, to big thinkers and political commentators, trailblazing entrepreneurs and wellbeing experts. Claire leads the recruitment and learning and development teams at Penguin Random House, who facilitate the company’s goals … More...
Sanphy Thomas
Sanphy is Managing Director of Jessica Kingsley Publishers and Director of Specialist Publishing for John Murray Press where she oversees the global publishing strategy for Sheldon Press, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, Hodder Faith and John Murray Languages. She joined JKP in 2018, during which time the publisher twice won Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards (2020 and 2022). Prior to working at Hachette, Sanphy … More...
Hannah Trevarthen
Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature
Hannah Trevarthen is Director of Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, committed to the vision of building futures with words. Previously Hannah was Events and Partnerships Manager at English PEN, one of the world’s oldest human rights organisations. Hannah led Common Currency, English PEN’s centenary celebration, a multi-partner project funded by Arts Council England; highlights include commissioning a new digital piece from Ai Weiwei which was projected on the Southbank Centre. In … More...
Jeremy Trevathan
Jeremy Trevathan is currently Managing Director at Macmillan Adult Division at Pan Macmillan, one of the UK’s oldest and largest general book publishers.
After achieving his Postgraduate Diploma in Publishing in 1980 from what is now Oxford Brookes University, he worked in a variety of roles in the academic and trade sectors across production, subsidiary rights, editorial and senior management teams at companies such as Blackwell’s Scientific Publications, Oxford … More...
Lucy Vanderbilt
Lucy is the Group Rights Director at HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. In 2009, Lucy was named the Frankfurt Book Fair Rights Professional of the Year at the British Book Industry Awards. She joined HarperCollins Publishers UK in 1998 from HarperCollins in New York, where she had worked in international rights in the Trade Division for two years. Prior to that, Lucy worked at Sterling Lord Literistic in rights, and at Writers … More...
Nicola Wilson
Nic is Head of Acquisition for Medical Publishing at Oxford University Press, and an Oxford Brookes alumna. She has over 20 years’ experience of working in medical publishing. She started her publishing career at Blackwell Publishing, and moved to Oxford University Press in 2004.
Nic has acquired clinical, academic, and popular health titles across many specialties, including Public Health, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Paediatrics, Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, Oncology, and Surgery.
She … More...
Simon Winder
Simon Winder is Publishing Director at Penguin Press. He is also an author.