Arend Küster

Arend Küster is the Acting Director for Bloomsbury Qatar Foundaitiona and the Managing Director for QScience.
He joined Qatar Foundaiton  from Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, where he was Business Development Director and led the development of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals and Qscience. He has worked in publishing for over 25 years, mainly in academic and professional journals. He currently serves on the Council of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP).

Arend is particularly excited in developing sustainable and innovative publishing, which utilise new technologies to improve access to information.

Prior to joining Bloomsbury in London, Arend was the European Director for Publishers Communication Group (PCG) and developed Sales and Marketing Strategies for scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishers.