Dame Gail Rebuck
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Gail is the chairman and CEO of the publishers, The Random House Group.
Summary:
Dame Gail Rebuck is the Chairman and CEO of The Random House Group Limited, one of the UK's leading trade publishing companies. Gail was a Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1993 to 2003, a Trustee of the Work Foundation from 2001 to 2008, and member of the first Creative Industries Task Force. Gail is currently a non-executive director of BSkyB, the Trustee of the National Literacy Trust, a Director of Skillset, and sits on the Council of the Royal College of Art. On top of this, Gail chairs the the publishing literacy charity Quick Reads.
Biography:
Dame Gail Rebuck, CBE, is Chair and Chief Executive of The Random House Group, one of the largest general book publishers in the UK with subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India. The Random House Group comprises 6 publishing companies, over 40 imprints and publishes many of the world’s best known authors amongst them 31 Nobel laureates and 16 Man Booker prize winners. The Random House Group is part of Random House Inc and Bertelsmann Media Worldwide. Gail is also a Non-Executive Director of BSkyB, a Trustee of the National Literacy Trust and on the Council of the Royal College of Art. She chairs the Quick Reads adult literacy initiative, part of the World Book Day Charity which she co-launched and in 2010 sat on the Government's Panel on Fair Access to the Professions. She was voted Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in April 2009 and awarded a DBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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