Introducing Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones, new director of the AUC Press

Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones joined the American University in Cairo Press last month, taking over the 50-year old publishing house from his predecessor Mark Linz.

Prior to joining the AUC Press, Nigel Fletcher-Jones was an independent medical and scientific publishing consultant and owner of Lexicon Publishing Consultants.

He held executive level positions with national and international publishing companies including the continuing medical education provider Pri-Med Inc. Blackwell Publishing Inc. Nature Publishing Group (where he was the publisher of the highly influential Nature research journals), Elsevier, and Cell Press. More recently he acted as the communications director for the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Throughout his career, he has advised CEOs on strategic issues influencing the global publishing industry and has successfully developed many research products and services for both the biomedical and clinical medicine markets.

He was one of the pioneers of online journal publishing and continues to be deeply committed to the development of community-targeted web services.

Dr. Fletcher-Jones is a former member of the AAP/PSP Executive Council and holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Durham.

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