Herman P. Spruijt

Herman P. Spruijt A long and distinguished career since 1974 has seen him hold key positions at market leaders and associations in both national and international publishing.

He started as an editor with one of the Kluwer-titles, worked in their printing industries and finally became a science publisher with Martinus Nijhoff (later Kluwer Academic). In 1981 he was asked by the newspaper group Perscombinatie to run one of the national Dutch daily newspapers (Trouw) as a director and publisher. He joined Elsevier Science Publishers in 1987 where in 1995 he was appointed as the Chairman and CEO of Elsevier Science and in the board of ReedElsevier.

He served, amongst other positions in the Industry, as a member and Treasurer of the executive board of STM (Scientific, Technical and Medical publishers, 1993-1999), in the board of ICSTI (International Council for Scientific and Technical Information) and in the Industry Advisory Committee of WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organization, 1998-2003).

As a vice-president and the President of the International Publishers Association (IPA) in Geneva (2004-2010) he has represented national, regional and specialized publishers’ associations from around the world.

Since the last 20 years Herman Spruijt holds a portfolio of non-executive directorships such as with Brill (Leiden, 2000-2014) and still chairs several boards of companies in the information and printing industries. He holds degrees from agricultural college, Nijenrode Business school and Leiden University.