Healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced the appointment of Roger Horton as its new chair, effective April 20, 2020.
BMJ publishes general medical journals, The BMJ, as well as a portfolio of specialty journals and clinical decision support tools to help health professionals improve the quality of patient care. BMJ is owned by the British Medical Association (BMA), the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.
Roger Horton has extensive and broad experience from a successful career in academic and reference publishing for over thirty five years. He was the CEO of the Taylor & Francis Group, the academic publishing division of Informa Plc for the latter twelve years. His career has encompassed roles in sales, marketing, editorial, distribution and senior management in three companies.
He was instrumental in floating Taylor & Francis on the London Stock Exchange and later merging it with Informa in 2004. As CEO he also led the acquisition of over fifty companies and served on the Publishers Association academic board for a number of years.
Roger Horton will also take on additional responsibilities for the BMA board.
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