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Caitlin Cornish, former publishing director for Palgrave Macmillan, has joined academic and professional publisher Emerald as its head of books publishing.
The company said it was a “significant strategic appointment” and forms part of Emerald’s investment in a "major new programme of academic and professional books and monographs".
Cornish was integral to the merger of Palgrave Macmillan and the Nature Publishing Group that created Springer Nature, where she became vice president for the economics, business, statistics, finance, mathematics and law programmes with responsibility for books and journals.
Tony Roche, publishing director at Emerald, said: “Caitlin has a superb reputation in our industry, with a track record for driving and delivering books programmes globally. We're delighted that she will lead the expansion of Emerald’s books business, a key part of our strategy to provide customers with quality research for management practice, putting Emerald at the heart of management learning.
“The book remains a key method of communication for the communities Emerald serves, alongside conference presentation, journal and case study dissemination. We aim to rapidly expand Emerald's books programme, to increase the uptake of research that can be applied in practice by students and professionals."
Cornish began her publishing career with Macmillan Publishers before moving to Wiley (later Wiley Blackwell), where she became editorial director for the Wiley Finance programme.
From Wiley, Cornish moved to Palgrave Macmillan to head up the academic, professional and reference books teams for humanities and social sciences in the UK, US and Asia before becoming publishing director.
She said: “I’m joining Emerald at a very exciting time, as it looks to really ramp up its books programme. I’m looking forward to the challenge of helping Emerald make that ambition a reality and enhance its reputation and impact as a publisher of books that help our communities make decisions that count based on research that matters.”
Emerald was founded in 1967 and currently manages a range of digital products, a portfolio of over 300 journals, more than 2,500 books and over 450 teaching cases.