Delia Costache

As Chief Executive Officer of MDPI, Delia Costache is mainly responsible for expanding the business, ensuring the highest publication standards and improving the author services. Previously she held the position of Publishing Development Manager. Before joining MDPI, Delia worked as Journal Publishing Manager for John Wiley & Sons in the UK, where she was responsible for the strategic development and performance of a large portfolio of journals within the health sciences division. She holds an MA in International Publishing from Oxford Brookes University. Before obtaining her Master’s degree, Delia worked as Business Development Manager for a medical publisher in Romania and previous to that she worked on several PHARE European projects, acquiring project management experience. Although most of her career in publishing has focused on journals, she also got familiar with book publishing as part of an internship within the medical books department at John Wiley & Sons during my master’s degree. Outside of her employed work, Delia was invited to work on market research projects run by the Publishers Association (UK) and Outsell (UK) Ltd. She lives between Zurich and Basel and is a mother of a lively daughter.