Ambassador Detail

Dame Gail Rebuck, CBE
Chair and Chief Executive

Random House Group is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK with subsidiary companies in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India.  It comprises six publishing companies, over 40 imprints and publishes many of the world’s best known authors.  The Group also runs three distribution centres in the UK, with over 70 client publishers. The Random House Group is part of Random House Inc and Bertelsmann Media Worldwide.

In addition to leading the Random House business, Gail is a Non-Executive Director of BSkyB, a Director of Skillset, a Trustee of the National Literacy Trust and on the Council of the Royal College of Art.  She chairs the Quick Reads adult literacy initiative, part of the World Book Day Charity which she co-launched and earlier this year sat on the Government’s Panel on Fair Access to the Professions.  She was voted Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year in April 2009 and awarded a DBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

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