Roger Horton, former CEO of the Taylor & Francis Group, will be appointed as the new Chair of the Board at CABI at its meeting in June 2018. He will succeed Philip Walters MBE who is retiring from the Board having been a non-executive director of CABI for seven years, the last three as Chair.
Walters joined CABI as a member of the Board in August 2011 before serving as Chair. He came into the position having formerly served as Chief Executive of Hodder Education, which is one of the largest educational publishers in the UK. He was awarded an MBE in 2010 for services to educational publishing.
Horton has served as a member of the CABI Board since July 2017 and brings a wealth of experience to the position including 14 years leading the Taylor & Francis Group - the academic publishing arm of Informa Plc, from 2003 to June 2017.
CABI Chief Executive Officer, Dr Trevor Nicholls, is responsible for managing CABI's affairs and will be directly accountable to Horton as Chair of the Board.
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