Frances Pinter
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Frances Pinter set up her own publishing company in 1973, at the age of 23. Pinter Publishers focussed on the social sciences and is believed to be the first women-owned publisher in the UK. She also founded the environmental studies imprint Belhaven Press in 1986 and in the near year acquired the humanities imprint University of Leicester Press. [1]
In 1994 [2] George Soros hired Pinter to become the head of the Open Society Institute's international publishing program.[3], whose goal was to support publishing and education in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism. She established the Centre for Publishing Development[4] based in Budapest.
Pinter was CEO of International House Trust from 2002 to 2006, which owns a London-based language school as well as a 50% share of International House World Organisation Ltd. She is a trustee of Redress, a charity focussed on helping torture survivors.[5] Pinter has previously acted as consultant to Creative Commons. [6]
She is project leader of "Publishing and Alternative Licensing Model of Africa (PALM Africa)[7]", a project based in Uganda and South Africa and funded by IDRC.[8] The goal of the project is to study whether flexible licensing arrangements (such as Creative Commons) are viable models for local publishers, and what business models emerge from this approach.[9]
Frances is currently a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, where she conducts research into how global civil society actors frame the intellectual property rights reform agenda.[10]
Pinter is married to filmmaker David Percy.
[edit] References
- ^ Frances Pinter
- ^ Frances Pinter
- ^ http://www.b-info.com/places/Bulgaria/news/98-05/may08c.rfe
- ^ center for publishing development - home
- ^ http://www.redress.org/trustees.html
- ^ http://writersservices.com/mag/08/Creative_Commons.htm
- ^ http://www.idrc.ca/acacia/ev-117012-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
- ^ http://www.crdi.ca/es/ev-118209-201_104502-1-IDRC_ADM_INFO.html
- ^ http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/our-work/intellectual-property-rights/blogs/fruit-palm-africa
- ^ http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/0000017642/publications.htm
