Perminder Mann
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Perminder Mann is a British publishing executive and businesswoman, who since 2017 has been CEO of Bonnier Books UK, the seventh largest publisher in the UK with sales of more than £80m. She is recognised as one of the UK's most powerful leaders[1] and as a publishing innovator – one of the first to publish a social media influencer and for her work introducing inclusive workplace policy.
Mann is President of the Publishers Association,[2] Chair of the board of trustees of award-winning mentoring charity and support network, Arts Emergency, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Visiting Professor at City University, and a member of the advisory board for Kingston University's publishing programme. She also appears annually in the UK's top 150 most influential people in book publishing, a list compiled by the industry's trade magazine, The Bookseller.
Mann was the first CEO of a major publisher to announce the move to a full flexible working policy in 2020.[3] She is an advocate for inclusivity and collaboration in the workplace.
Perminder Mann was born to immigrant parents and grew up in the West London Indian community. At the age of 13, she appeared in the BBC documentary Life of an Asian Girl.[4]