1. NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR OF THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
STANFORD UNIVERSITY announces the appointment of Geoffrey
R. H. Burn as Managing Director of the Stanford
University Press, effective 1 October 2000. Following the
April 2000 announcement by Provost John Hennessy that the
Stanford University Press would report to University
Librarian Michael Keller, an intensive, nationwide search
was mounted to find an individual with the right
combination of experience in the academic publishing
world as well as success in strategic leadership of
emerging publishing technologies. "Geoffrey Burn has an
extraordinary track record of taking dynamic companies
and turning them into outstanding enterprises," comments
Keller.
Keller said that the role of the managing director is to
lead and expand the program of the Stanford University
Press. As the senior manager in the Press, Burn is
responsible for maintaining and improving the current
publishing program in scholarly books as well as
developing important new lines of publication. All
aspects of editorial and production operations,
marketing, and distribution are in the purview of the
managing director.
Burn was most recently president and CEO of The
Brooks/Cole Group, part of the Thomson Corporation, in
Monterey. The Brooks/Cole Group publishes print and
electronic product for the college market in mathematics,
statistics, science, engineering and computer science.
Prior to that, Burn served as CEO of Thomson Science &
Professional, a group of companies in the US, the UK and
Germany publishing journals, magazines, books, CDs and
on-line products for researchers and practitioners in
biomedicine, applied science, engineering, architecture
and business technology.
Burn's previous appointments have included executive
director of the BMJ Publishing Group, British Medical
Association in London, England; managing director of
Butterworth Scientific Limited in Guildford, England;
president of Butterworth Law Publishers Canada, in
Toronto and Vancouver; and a series of positions with
Metheun Publications in Canada. Burn's industry
appointments include director, University, College and
Professional Publishers Group, the Publishers Association
(UK); director, the Canadian Book Publishers' Council;
and president, College Publishers' Group of the Canadian
Book Publishers' Council. He was founding program
director of the Professional, College and School
Publishing Courses at the Banff School of Fine Arts,
where he was also a faculty member of the Trade
Publishing Course. Burn is a Fellow of the Institute of
Directors, and a member of The British Academy of
Management.
The move in which the Stanford University Press reports
to the Stanford University Libraries focuses the
university's institutional investments in scholarly
communication through a single senior officer. With this
new reporting structure, publishing under the Press
imprint will be overseen by the same executive
responsible for the Libraries' HighWire Press, an
Internet publishing services enterprise assisting in the
production of Internet editions of more than 210
scientific journals.
For more information regarding these changes to the
Stanford University Press, please refer to:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/april12/sup
ress-412.html
Those on the Stanford faculty interview team were
Professor David Brady, Associate Dean, Graduate School of
Business (on SUPress Board of Governors); Professor David
Holloway, Director, Institute for International Studies;
Professor John Bender, English and Comparative Literature
(Chair of Academic Senate committee on Libraries and
SUPress author); Professor Rob Polhemus, English (Chair
of SUPress Board of Editors); Professor Tim Lenoir,
History (Editor of SUPress Series "Writing in Science");
Tim Warner, Vice Provost for Budget and Auxiliaries
Management; and Carol Olsen, Regional Manager, Stanford
Human Resources.
Keller remarked that the interview team recommended
unanimously and with great enthusiasm the appointment of
Burn as managing director of the Stanford University
Press.
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