Frances Pinter

Who is Frances Pinter?

Dr Frances Pinter is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit company creating a global library consortium enabling sustainable open access academic book publishing.

Frances Pinter was the founding publisher at Bloomsbury Academic from 2008-2012, an imprint of the Bloomsbury Publishing Group, which publishes titles in the social sciences and humanities; Bloomsbury Academic both markets the books commercially using print on demand technology and also provides free digital versions with Creative Commons licenses for non-commercial use.

She is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, where she conducts research into how active participants in global civil society frame the reform agenda of intellectual property rights. Previously, she served as a consultant to Creative Commons and wrote an article explaining its goals for Writers Magazine 2008.