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University of Edinburgh. University of New York
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Victoria Barnsley
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Career
In 1984 she founded the publishing house Fourth Estate. In 2000 the company was acquired by HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corporation, when Barnsley was made Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of HarperCollins United Kingdom. In 2008 she was promoted to Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of HarperCollins United Kingdom and International, a position she remained in until July 2013. While at HarperCollins, she helped to develop its digital and international content business.
Barnsley has held various high profile industry roles including President of the Publishers Association and Chair of World Book Day.
She also represented the publishing sector on the Creative Industries Council. In addition to literature Barnsley has an extensive interest in the visual arts and is a former trustee of both Tate and The National Gallery.
At Tate she chaired the Tate Britain Council and remains a trustee of the Tate Foundation and a director of Tate Enterprises Limited. Barnsley has a Bachelor in English Literature from University College London and an Master of Arts from the University of New York
She was made a Fellow of University College London in 2005, and was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for services to publishing in the 2009 New Years Honours List.
Since 1992 she has been married to The Honorary Nicholas Howard, son of the cross-bench life peer George Howard, Baron Howard of Henderskelfe. They have one daughter.
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