David Prosser
Research Libraries UK Executive Director
UK
Since March 2010 David Prosser has been the Executive Director of RLUK, the representative body for the UK’s leading research libraries. Before moving to RLUK, he was, from 2002, the founding Director of SPARC Europe, an alliance of over 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries advocating new models of scholarly communication. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press and Elsevier Science. During this time, he was involved in all aspects of publishing from production through to editorial and financial management of journals. Before becoming a publisher, he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK.