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	Frances Pinter PhD Founder of Pinter Publishers Publishing Director – the Soros Foundation CEO International House Trust Researcher at Oxford University and the London School of Economics Publisher – Bloomsbury Academic

At the age of 23, was the first woman to establish her own publishing company in the UK.  Pinter Publishers became a leader in the social sciences.  Also founded the environmental studies imprint Belhaven Press and acquired the humanities imprint Leicester University Press.

Subsequently, was invited by philanthropist and financier George Soros to devise multi-million dollar programmes supporting publishing and education in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.

Frances Pinter has extensive international experience as an entrepreneur and leader in the commercial and non-profit sectors. She has established companies, and advised others how to set up new operations and transform existing ones.

Recently she was CEO of International House Trust, which owns a premier language school in London and holds a 50% share of International House World Organisation Ltd., an affiliated network of 140 language schools in over 40 countries.

Frances is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. She has acted as consultant to Creative Commons and ran a research project on alternative licencing practices in developing countries. Currently she is working on a project looking into the international interlectual property reform agenda.

Bloomsbury Academic, a new imprint of Bloomsbury Publishers, appointed Frances as Publisher in 2008 as its founding publisher. This new venture makes original research-based publications available online free of charge on Creative Commons licences and pioneers new business models. Frances is now the publisher of the digitised Winston Churchill Archive collection online to be launched mid 2012.

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