Gail Rebuck

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Gail Rebuck, Baroness Rebuck DBE (born February 10, 1952 in London ) is a British publisher and chairwoman of the British sector of the global publisher Penguin Random House .

Life

Gail Rebuck's Latvian-born grandfather worked in the London clothing industry, just like her father. At the age of four she was sent to the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington (London), where she learned to read and write French rather than English. In 1974 she graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in intellectual history .

After Rebuck worked for several smaller publishers and joined the Hamlyn Group as a non-fiction book publisher in 1979 , she was one of the founders of Century Publishing in 1982. This merged with Hutchinson in 1985 , then took the name Century Hutchinson and was taken over by Random House in 1989 . In 1991 Rebuck was promoted to chair and general manager of Random House UK.

Rebuck was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 and Dame in 2009 . In 2006 it ranked a list of the leading figures in the British book industry published in the Observer in fifth place and in 2011 a similar list presented in the Guardian in ninth place. In February 2013, she was ranked the tenth most powerful woman in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 .

On September 18, 2014, Gail Rebuck received a Life Peerage with the title Baroness Rebuck , of Bloomsbury in the London Borough of Camden , and was able to move into the House of Lords for the Labor Party . She is following in the footsteps of her husband Philip Gould, Baron Gould of Brookwood , who died in November 2011 and from whom she had two daughters Georgia and Grace.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Boyd Tonkin: "Gail Rebuck: Power behind the prose" , The Independent , 4th September, 2010.
  2. ↑ a b c Best of British Industry Awards - Gail Rebuck ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.britishindustryawards.co.uk
  3. ↑ Graham Ruddick: "Random House boss Gail Rebuck leads Queen's birthday honors for financial world" , The Daily Telegraph , June 13th of 2009.
  4. ↑ Robert McCrum : "Our top 50 players in the world of books" , The Observer , March 5 of 2006.
  5. ↑ Books Power 100: Gail Rebuck # 9 , The Guardian , Sept. 24, 2011.
  6. ^ "The Power List 2013" , Woman's Hour , BBC Radio 4.
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 60997, HMSO, London, September 24, 2014, p. 18554 ( PDF , English).
personal data
SURNAME Rebuck, Gail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebuck, Gail, Baroness Rebuck (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH London