| Helga Zunde-Baker has almost 25 years of experience in academic and professional publishing. She has worked with organisations as diverse as the British Standards Institution, The Lancet (Elsevier), The Chambers Dictionary, IDS (Thomson Reuters), Palgrave Macmillan and most recently, SpringerNature.Expert at developing large, global, teams, and with a wealth of technical production knowledge, Helga can quickly build rapport and deliver meaningful results fast. Most recently Helga was Global Head of Production at SpringerNature, responsible for production of the Nature Academic, Palgrave, and British Dental Association journals portfolios. This involved both in-house and offshore production, including the sensitive management of learned society partner relationships, and production of the Nature Partner Journals open access list. As part of post-merger integration she led the successful migration of large volumes of legacy data and work in progress to Springer tools and systems. Prior to this she was Publishing Services Director for Palgrave Macmillan, where she led a digital first review and worked collaboratively with offshore suppliers to develop fast-track scholarly monograph production (weeks, not months) for the innovative Palgrave Pivot offering.
Helga has extensive experience of RFP and procurement, vendor management, workflow optimisation, restructuring, change management and BPO. She has been a guest lecturer on the UCL MA in Publishing, and in 2016 spoke at the ALPSP “new digital models” event. |