Our Board of Directors is composed of representatives from across the publishing industry.
Julie joined Random House Australia in 2000. She has held various roles in sales, business development and publishing, including the Director of Business Development and the Children’s Division – where she was in charge of publishing, sales, marketing and publicity. Since 2015, Julie has been the Chief Executive Officer of Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand.
With broad experience in the book industry, Julie started as a bookseller but now has extensive publishing experience establishing and running a number of publishing divisions for Hardie Grant. She is now Group Managing Director of Hardie Grant Publishing, and a Director of The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne's Centre for Books Writing and Ideas. Julie chairs the Industry Advisory Committee for RMIT’s Masters in Writing and Publishing.
Mark has over 20 years experience in the publishing industry. He joined Cambridge University Press in 2000, and was Director of the Press’s businesses in Japan, Korea and Taiwan before moving to Melbourne to head the Press in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
A former primary school teacher, Brendan has worked in educational publishing for more than 20 years. Currently the International Business Manager at Cengage Australia, he has been a member of the SEPC since 2014 and is a passionate supporter of the Educational Publishing Awards Australia.
With over 26 years publishing experience at a senior-level, Jim Demetriou started his career at HarperCollins Australia in 1995 as National Sales Manager before eventually becoming Chief Operating Officer. In 2011 Jim moved to Allen & Unwin as Group Sales & Marketing Director where he developed an enviable industry leading sales and marketing team. In 2020 Jim returned to HarperCollins as CEO to lead the company into its next phase of growth and maintain its position as one Australia’s most dynamic publishers.
Karen’s publishing career has seen her working in various roles at Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and, now, the Taylor & Francis Group where she is Managing Director, Australasia.
Currently Director at University of Queensland Press, Ben has worked across Educational, academic and trade publishing. As Convenor of the IPC, Ben is an active supporter of Australian independent publishing.
Andrew’s career in publishing began in 1989, working in various roles at McGraw-Hill, Chapman & Hall and Thomson. Andrew joined Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1997, later becoming Director of CSIRO Publishing.
With a long career in both the UK and Australia, Louise has experience in every aspect and every stage of the publishing process for books. Now CEO of Hachette Australia, Louise is a passionate advocate for the trade publishing sector as Convenor of the Trade Publishers Committee, Chair of the Australia Reads Committee and board member of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.
Our sectoral committees represent the broad range of the Australian publishing industry, and are currently made up of the following representatives:
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