president publishing executive
Charkin has an Master of Arts in Natural Sciences from Trinity College Cambridge, and also followed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Green College, Oxford and is currently visiting professor at the University of the Arts London.
He has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier and Current Science Group, and is the former Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. In 2015, he became President of the International Publishers Association. Science Editor, Harrap & Company
1972-1973 Senior Publishing Manager, Life Sciences, Pergamon Press 1973-1974 Oxford University Press: medical books editor 1974-1976, Head of Science and Medical Division 1976-1980, Head of Reference Division 1980-1984, Managing Director Academic Division 1984-1988 Executive Director Octopus Publishing Group (Reed) 1988–1990 Chief Executive Reed Consumer Books 1990-1994 & Reed International Books 1994-1995 Managing Director Current Science Group 1995-1996 Chief Executive Officer worldwide, Macmillan Limited 1997–2007 Executive Director Bloomsbury plc 2007– Council member and former President of the United Kingdom Publishers Association President of International Publishers Association since 2015.
