Bob Campbell

Bob Campbell joined Blackwell Science directly from university in 1968 and became Editorial Director in 1978, progressing to Managing Director in 1987 and then President of Blackwell Publishing in 2001.  On the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing by John Wiley & Sons in 2007 he became Senior Publisher. He has served as chairman of the ADONIS project, STM, INASP, CrossRef and the Publishing Research Consortium, and twice served on the Council of the PA. He received an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University in 2005 and in 2009 received an ALPSP Award for Contribution to Scholarly Publishing. Bob has authored or co-authored several books on ornithology then publishing and written over 60 articles mainly on journal publishing. In 2011 he was elected to Honorary Membership of the British Ecological Society for his contribution to the science of ecology.