Juergen Boos trained as a publisher at Herder Verlag in the early 1980s and has degrees in both Marketing and Organisational Theory. He has held management positions at Droemer Knaur Verlag (Munich), Carl Hanser Verlag (Munich), as well as Springer Science and Business Media (Berlin) and John Wiley & Sons (Weinheim). He became Executive Director at the Ausstellungs- und Messe GmbH (Frankfurt Book Fair) in 2005, is President of LITPROM (Society for the Promotion of African, Asian, and Latin American Literature), and Managing Director of LitCam (Frankfurt Book Fair Literacy Campaign). He is also a member of both the Scientific Committee of Sheikh Zayed Book Award and the Akademie Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize Academy).
