The University of Cambridge has announced the appointment of Peter Phillips as the new Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press. Phillips will take up his new post immediately following the recent change of role for the Press’s previous Chief Executive, Stephen Bourne.
The new appointment was made by the Press Syndicate, the Cambridge academics who supervise the affairs of the Press on behalf of the University. The Chief Executive of the Press also serves as Secretary to the Press Syndicate, accountable to the University for the performance of the organisation, and assumes the ancient title of University Printer.
Peter has been Chief Operating Officer of the Press since 2010, where he has globalised its structure, transformed its operations and developed its strategy for the future. He has wide experience of global content industries, digital transformation and managing change in organisations with public purposes operating in commercial environments. He was previously on the Board of Ofcom, the UK’s regulator for communications and media, and at the BBC where, amongst other roles, he was Chief Operating Officer for BBC News and the BBC’s Director of Business Development.
