Frances Pinter
I was born in Venezuela of Hungarian parents and lived in Australia before entering primary school in the USA.
My secondary education was completed in the US and Switzerland with university degrees obtained in the USA and UK.
I studied International Relations because I wanted to understand people from around the world.
I’ve been an immigrant three times in my life but am a long-time resident of Belsize Park with my husband who was born in this part of London.
Academic Publishing
Being a publisher has provided me with the privilege of a life-long education, visiting ninety countries during the course of my professional career.
The four main presses I have worked at are Pinter Publishers, Bloomsbury Academic, Manchester University Press and the Central European University Press.
I’ve advised numerous small university and mission-driven academic publishers on four continents, learning a great deal from their different perspectives.
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Other Activities
During pauses in my publishing career I’ve conducted research while holding visiting fellowships at the London School of Economics and the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
The development of business models (subsequently widely adopted) enabling open access for scholarly books has been laced throughout most of my work over the last twenty years.
Recently I set up SUPRR, an initiative to Support Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery as they become more integrated into the global publishing ecosystem.