Academic publisher Cambridge University Press has announced the appointment of Mandy Hill as the new Managing Director of Academic Publishing. She will take up the new post in September. She succeeds Richard Fisher, who will be leaving in December after 30 years at the Press.
Mandy has over 20 years experience in academic publishing and has worked at Oxford University Press since 1998. Having joined as a publisher for medical journals, she was promoted to Editorial Director for Oxford Journals in 2006 and then Editorial Director for Science and Medicine (books and journals) in 2008. For the past four years, Mandy has served as Publishing Director of the Global Academic Publishing Group at Oxford, managing the editorial programmes for their academic books and journals across STM, humanities, social sciences, and law.
Prior to joining Oxford, Mandy worked at Elsevier and a medical communications agency. She sits on the ALPSP Council, the Publishing Board of the Royal Society and is a Foreign Consultant for China Book International.
