Mike Boswood - biography

Mike Boswood

Mike Boswood is President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson International Legal & Regulatory, a strategic business unit of The Thomson Corporation, based in London. In this role, he is responsible for leading the development and execution of Thomson’s legal & regulatory strategies in markets outside of North America. Mike also serves on Thomson's Management Committee. Prior to joining The Thomson Corporation in 1997, he held a number of senior positions at Reed Elsevier in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United States, serving as Managing Director of Elsevier Science Ltd, as joint Managing Director of Elsevier Science Publishers BV and as President of Elsevier Science Inc.

Since 2003 he has been a member of the Executive Council of The Publishers Association and is its current President. From 1988-1996 he was a board member of the Copyright Clearance Center Inc in the USA. He is a firm believer in the need for copyright law in the digital age as a mechanism for protecting the rights of all those involved in the publishing process.