Simon Ross, formerly Cambridge University Press's deputy managing director for academic publishing as well as CUP global business development director, has been appointed as the new CEO of Manchester University Press. Ross succeeds Frances Pinter, who is stepping down after completing a planned three years at the MUP helm. He takes up the role on August 1, 2016.
Ross was also previously managing director of Cambridge Journals, CUP's global journals business. Prior to that he worked in senior management and editorial roles at the Times Publishing Group, Pearson Education, Sage Publications and Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pinter would be spending more time with KU Research, the new arm of her scholarly books project Knowledge Unlatched. KU Research, which is based at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, is set to develop new programmes to bring transparency to Open Access usage data.
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