Richard Charkin
Richard Charkin (born 17 June 1949) is a British publishing executive. He has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier and Current Science Group, and is the former Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.[1] In 2015, he became President of the International Publishers Association.[2] He was Executive Director of Bloomsbury from 2007 to 2018 and is currently President of Bloomsbury China and of John Wisden. He is also a non-executive director of Institute of Physics Publishing, and is Chair of Common Purpose.
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He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Editorial Board of Logos[3] as well as teaching on the publishing courses at University College London, City University of London, and University of the Arts London. He has founded and manages Mensch Publishing.[4]
Charkin has an MA in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Cambridge. He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford and is currently visiting professor at the University of the Arts London.
Publications
- Charkin Blog, The Archive, Macmillan, 2008.
- The Lowdown: top tips for wannabe CEOs (with Richard Pettinger), Creative Content Ltd, 2009
- Publishing Perspectives articles
References
- "The board - Corporate and Investor Relations - Bloomsbury.com". bloomsbury-ir.co.uk.
- "Richard Charkin". huffingtonpost.com.
- "Logos - about". brill.
- "About Mensch Publishing". Mensch Publishing. Retrieved 3 April 2020.