Richard Charkin has held executive positions at Pergamon Press, Oxford University Press, Reed International/Reed Elsevier and Current Science Group, is the former Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. He was Executive Director of Bloomsbury from 2007 to 2018 and is currently President of Bloomsbury China and of John Wisden. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Editorial Board of Logos. He has founded and manages Mensch Publishing.