Richard Charkin

Richard Charkin is a Director of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc group (http://www.bloomsbury.com/ andhttp://www.berlinverlage.de/) whose authors include J.K.Rowling, Khaled Hosseini, Jonathan Littell, Ingo Schulz, John Irving, William Boyd and many others. He is also a non-executive director of Melbourne University Publishing in Australia (http://www.mup.com.au/), John Wisden (the world's leading cricket books - http://www.cricshop.com/Wisden-Almanacks/2008-Wisden-Cricketers-Almanack-Hardback.aspx ). He is a member of the Strategy Advisory Board of the British Library (http://www.bl.uk/); a member of the UK's Literary Heritage Group (http://www.literary.org.uk/parliament.php); a Trustee and former Chairman of Common Purpose International (http://www.commonpurpose.org/home.aspx); Council member and former President of the Publishers Association (http://www.publishers.org.uk/en/home/ ); and Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London (http://www.arts.ac.uk/). He was Chair of the Trustees of the Whitechapel Art Gallery (http://www.whitechapel.org/ ) and Chair of the Society of Bookmen.

He has held senior positions at Macmillan (http://international.macmillan.com/), part of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck (http://www.holtzbrinck.com/artikel/778427&s=de); Current Science Group (http://sciencenavigation.com/ ); Reed Elsevier (http://www.reed-elsevier.com/Pages/Home.aspx); and Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.co.uk/).

He has an MA in Natural Sciences from Trinity College, Cambridge (http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/): was a Supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford (http://www.green.ox.ac.uk/); and attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School (http://www.hbs.edu/). Macmillan has recently issued a print-on-demand book version of http://charkinblog.macmillan.com.