Academic publisher SAGE has announced a re-organisation of its senior management team, creating a global structure for its publishing programmes.
Ziyad Marar, Deputy Managing Director and Executive Vice President located in London will now assume responsibility for SAGE's global publishing programme, incorporating all editorial, production and marketing operations for SAGE US and SAGE UK. Marar has over twenty years of experience at SAGE in London, first within marketing, then later as Editorial Director and Publishing Director. During his career he has built international publishing programmes in psychology and politics, across reference and textbooks, developed innovative launch journals as well as negotiated the publication of major society journals by SAGE.
As part of the re-organisation, Stephen Barr, President of SAGE International and Managing Director of SAGE London, into which SAGE's India and Asia Pacific companies report, has also assumed global responsibility for SAGE's sales operations. Additionally, Clive Parry has been appointed Vice President and Global Marketing Director, reporting into Ziyad Marar.