Rachel Moriarty

Rachel Moriarty has been working in academic publishing since joining Springer Nature as a Senior Editorial Assistant in 2009, following completion of an MSc in Publishing. Thirteen years on, she is an experienced Publisher, based in the UK, and working for Oxford University Press on their Medical Journals.

Rachel is passionate about contributing to the wider publishing community, and held the Early Career Publisher seat on the Board of the STM Association until December 2021. She was the Chair of the STM's Early Career Publishers Committee (ECPC) until October 2020, and remains on the ECPC as the Chair of the Mentoring sub-Committee and member of the Graduate sub-committee. She regularly participates in webinars and mentoring programmes, aimed at developing the next generation of Publishers (as well as herself), with two notable activities being her participation in the Financial Times 125 Women’s 2018 Forum and a panellist at the 2017 London Book Fair, discussing "Careers in Academic Publishing: Developing and Enhancing Skills and Experience".

Further information about Rachel can be found on her LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-moriarty-b9575616/.