The MA in Book Publishing is delighted to have three of the most prominent people in UK publishing as Visiting Professors. All of our Visiting Professors provide their experience and connections for the benefit of the MA Publishing course.

Michael Barnard

Michael Barnard is Deputy Chairman of the Macmillan group where he has enjoyed a long, successful career encompassing book and journal publishing, new media, new fiction, group production, distribution and logistics, IT services and human resources. He has been chairman or director of several Macmillan overseas companies including operations in China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Eire. He has held elected high offices of a number of professional associations connected with the publishing industry, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspapermakers, and a Fellow of the Institute of Printing, Paper and Publishing

Richard Charkin

Richard Charkin is Executive Director of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. Before joining Bloomsbury, he was for 10 years CEO of the Macmillan Group and before that, CEO of Reed International Books. He began his career in specialist publishing, working at Pergamon which he left to join OUP and eventually became Managing Director of the Academic and General Divisions. He has been President of the Publishers Association and Chairman of the Society of Bookmen. 

Lynette Owen

Lynette Owen, OBE, is Director of Copyright at Pearson Education, the multinational publisher of educational, academic and professional publications. She began her publishing career at Cambridge University Press and went on to work at Pitman Publishing and Marshall Cavendish, before joining Longman, now Pearson Education. Professor Owen is the acknowledged world's leading expert on Rights. She has a particular interest in licensing to emerging publishing markets and has been invited to run many training courses on copyright and licensing in Central and Eastern Europe, China and Vietnam, Mexico, Mongolia, Thailand, Argentina and South Africa.

Her book Selling Rights is the leading contribution to this subject, and she is also General Editor of the definitive book on publishing contracts, Clark's Publishing Agreements. In addition, she has written a number of country-focused handbooks on licensing, most recently for Latvia and Slovenia. In 2003, Professor Owen was awarded the London Book Fair's first 'Lifetime Achievement Award' in recognition for services to publishing. In 2009, she was awarded the OBE by Her Majesty the Queen, for services to the publishing industry.