James Perham-Marchant

James Perham-Marchant

As Director of Government Affairs, EMEA, James leads and coordinates Wiley's government and academic affairs activities in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. This involves responsibility for  Wiley's responses in terms of advocacy, communications, issues management, thought leadership and outreach to policy developments in relevant areas such open access, research funding, copyright reform, data protection, open educational resources, open science, open data and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) across the EMEA region with a view to actively influence and shape the policy agenda in Brussels, London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere in the EMEA region as it is developed and implemented. James also seeks to work  with Wiley's Learned Society partners to enhance understanding of government and academic affairs and enhance Wiley's relationships with the academic leadership community and partner with academic thought leaders and build relationships with key stakeholder groups such as legislative and executive branches of government across the EMEA region, European Union institutions, research funders, government and charitable research funding entities, business and trade associations, think tanks, publishers, higher education institutions and supranational organizations.

Prior to joining Wiley in 2014, James was Director of European Government Affairs at The McGraw-Hill Companies (now McGraw-Hill Financial) where he worked for the global credit rating agency, Standard & Poor’s for over a decade in marketing, business development and government affairs roles in London and Brussels. Prior to this, James worked in international marketing and business development roles at PwC, Allen & Overy, ACCA and the British Council