Richard is responsible for Bloomsbury's publishing activities in
the UK, USA and Germany (through Berlin Verlag). He has held senior
positions at Macmillan (CEO worldwide), part of Verlagsgruppe Georg
von Holtzbrinck (Director), Current Science Group (CEO), Reed
Elsevier (CEO Reed International Books) and Oxford University Press
(Managing Director Academic and General Divisions).
He is a non-executive director of the Institute of Physics
Publishing, Council member and former President of the Publishers
Association, Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts
London and a member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the British
Library, the Institute of English Studies Advisory Board and the
UK's Literary Heritage Group. He is formerly Chair of the Trustees
of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Chair of the Society of Bookmen,
Chairman of xrefer.com and a director of the Centre for Creative
Business at the London Business School and non-executive director
of Melbourne University Publishing. He is a former Chairman of
Common Purpose UK.
He has an MA in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge,
was a Supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford and attended
the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
