Mary Glenn

Mary Glenn is Chief of UN Publications in the Department of Global Communications, and oversees the promotion of United Nations’ knowledge, communication, and outreach objectives by publishing, selling, distributing, and licensing print and electronic publications, periodicals and databases that disseminate United Nations’ knowledge, studies and data. The program includes over 500 new UN publications per year, in print, digital, and accessible e-book formats, available around the world in the six official UN languages, and the subscription-based platforms UN Development Business, Comtrade, and UN-iLibrary. In addition, her department manages the e-commerce site shop.un.org, and UN Bookshops in New York and Geneva, where UN Publications, books from other publishers, and UN branded products are sold — all aligned with UN values and priorities. Before joining the UN, she was Associate Publisher at McGraw-Hill, and has experience in every sector of commercial publishing from trade start-ups to major educational,