Board of Directors Profile
Bronwyn Bancroft - Independent Director
Bronwyn is an Australian artist with works held in collections throughout Australia including the National Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as international collections.
Bronwyn has had extensive experience protecting the rights of creators, having served on the boards of Viscopy, the National Indigenous Arts Advocacy Association, the National Gallery of Australia and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Anthony Bertini - Independent Director
Mr Bertini has extensive experience in publishing and new media, including 15 years in sales and publishing roles for ACP Publishing and ICP Magazines.
More recently he has founded and led media advisory companies, including BMC Media and Thumper One Ltd, a corporate advisory practice that assists with investment and capital-raising in new-technology start-ups. Mr Bertini has also been a Director of the Biennale of Sydney since 2004.
James Bradley - ASA Director
James Bradley is an author and critic. His books include Wrack, The Deep Field and Paper Nautilus. He has been a member of the Australian Society of Authors Executive Committee since 2001, and the Committee of Sydney PEN (2002-03).
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Alexander Grant - Independent Director and Chair
Alexander is Chief Executive of Hardie Grant Publishing, the holding company for four separate publishing companies - Hardie Grant Books, Hardie Grant Magazines, Hardie Grant Egmont and Explore Australia. Mr Grant is Chair and/or Director of the four entities. Hardie Grant Publishing is an independent group established in 1998.
His publishing career includes roles as Marketing Director Pitman Australia, Deputy Managing Director Pitman UK, Managing Director Heinemann Publishing Australia, Managing Director Reed Books Australia and CEO Reed Books UK.
He was a former Chair of the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, a former Director of the Australian Republican Movement and a former President of the APA (1998-2002 and 2003-04).
Alexander was an APA Director of CAL from 2002 to 2009, after which he was appointed Chair.
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Libby Gleeson - ASA Director
Libby is a former higher and tertiary education teacher and a widely published writer of children’s and youth literature.
Libby was a director of OzAuthors (2000-04) and has been a director of BookMite, Pty Ltd since 1996. She is also a former Treasurer and Chair of the Australian Society of Authors. In 2005 Libby won the 2005 Meritorious Service to Public Education and Training Award and in 2007 Libby was awarded membership of the Order of Australia for her services to literature.
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Brian Johns - Independent Director
Brian has extensive experience in journalism, book publishing, public broadcasting and cultural development. He has played a leading role in the development of communications and cultural policy in Australia over many years.
Brian was Adjunct Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at the Queensland University of Technology (2000-04), and was also the Chairman of QUT's Cultural Precinct.
Prior to this he served a five-year term as Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) (1995–2000). From 1992 until joining the ABC, Brian was Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), and prior to this was Managing Director of the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) (1987-92).
Before joining the SBS, Brian spent eight years as Publishing Director of Penguin Books (1979-87), greatly expanding its Australian titles.
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Malcolm Knox - Author Director
Malcolm Knox has extensive and diverse experience on most sides of journalism and book publishing, and a familiarity with copyright issues as they affect different interests.
He has held a number of positions at The Sydney Morning Herald including chief cricket correspondent (1996-99), assistant sport editor (1999–2000) and literary editor (2002–06).
Malcolm covered the Sydney Olympic Games for the newspaper and the 2000 US Presidential election as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. As literary editor, he broke the story of the fake Jordanian memoirist, Norma Khouri, which won him a Walkley Award (Investigative Journalism category) in 2004.
Since 2000, Malcolm Knox has published six books including the novels Summerland and A Private Man, winner of a Ned Kelly Award and a finalist in seven other Australian and international prizes. His non-fiction book Secrets of the Jury Room won an Alex Buzo prize for research and was serialised on ABC Radio. Malcolm has also worked as an editorial consultant for the publisher Pan Macmillan.
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Rodney Martin - Publisher Director
As both an educational author and publisher, Rodney has a keen interest in and practical experience with the enactment of copyright law both within Australia and overseas.
Rodney was a primary school teacher, administrator and curriculum writer in South Australia for 14 years and during that time began writing for various educational publishers.
In 1971, he founded his own publishing company, Era Publications. Works written or edited by Rodney have been translated into 17 languages, published or distributed in more than 30 countries and have achieved national and international literary recognition.
His boardroom experience includes Director of Australian Multimedia Enterprise Limited (AME) (1995–98). Rodney is on the Board of the Exporters’ Club in Adelaide and a member of the Executive Committee of Family Business Australia (SA Chapter). He is currently the convenor of the SA Publishing Cluster.
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Martin Spears - Publisher Director
Martin’s interest and career in educational publishing has spanned 19 years. He spent 10 years with Heinemann, and then Rigby Heinemann (now Harcourt Education) before joining Longman in 1995.
Currently, he is Managing Director of Australia’s largest educational publisher, Pearson Education Australia. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Board and an elected member of the APA Schools Committee since 1995.
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