Graham Taylor

Graham Taylor has been a publisher since 1973, working in senior positions for UK-based groups including Heinemann, Longman, Nelson and Collins. He joined the UK Publishers Association in 2001 as Director of Educational, Academic and Professional Publishing, just in time to join a decade of intense debate around the future of scholarly publishing and the emergence of open access as both a business model and a religion. He has been a close participant in most of the significant UK initiatives and a keen observer of developments elsewhere. He was instrumental in the formation of the Finch Group that recommended Gold OA as the direction of travel, which has since been endorsed as UK government policy. The UK funders however have proved reluctant to provide clear guidance on how this policy is to be implemented, so as publishers we are not out of the woods just yet.

Graham left the PA in February to set up as an independent consultant. He remains a director of both the UK Copyright Licensing Agency and the Publishers Licensing Society, and he chairs the Educational Publishers Forum of the International Publishers Association.