Juergen Boos

Juergen Boos trained as a publisher at Herder Verlag (Freiburg) 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).

Boos became President and CEO of the Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH (Frankfurt Book Fair) in 2005 and is President of LitProm (Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature) and Managing Director of LitCam (Frankfurter Buchmesse Literacy Campaign). In January 2017, Boos received an honorary degree from the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of Sheikh Zayed Book Award and a member of Akademie Deutscher Buchpreis (German Book Prize Academy). In February 2018, Boos was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.^[2] On 5 October 2022, he received the "Vigdís International Prize" named after Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, former President of Iceland and current UNESCO Ambassador for the Promotion of Linguistic Diversity, which is jointly awarded by the Icelandic government, the University of Iceland, and the Vigdís International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding.^[3] During the state visit of the Spanish royal couple to the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022, Juergen Boos was awarded the "Encomienda de Número de la Orden de Isabel la Católica".^[4] In 2022 Boos was awarded the international Vigdís Prize, an award conferred for outstanding contributions to world languages and cultures, for his tireless support of languages and cultures in his capacity as CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair.^[5] On 11 February 2023, Juergen Boos was made a Knight 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V of Norway.^[6] He is a member of PEN Berlin.^[7]