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Governance


The Prize is managed by a board of directors and administered by Four Agency.

The Board comprises:

  • Sir Peter Bazalgette (Chair) Chair of Creative Industries Council and Royal College of Art
  • Dotti Irving (Prize co-founder)
  • Toby Mundy (Prize Director & CEO, Aevitas Creative Management UK)
  • Ailah Ahmed (Publishing Director, Penguin Random House)
  • Caroline Daniel (Partner, Brunswick)
  • Morgan Entrekin (Founder, Grove/Atlantic Inc) (observer)
  • Peter Florence (Director of The Conversation and chair of the European Festivals Forest)
  • Rosamund McCarthy (Partner at Stone King)
  • Peter Straus (Managing director, Rogers, Coleridge and White)
  • Sandra Taylor (Communications and strategy consultant, Penguin Random House)
  • Frederick Studemann (Literary Editor, Financial Times)
  • Shreya Ramroop (Director, Siena Accounting)

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction is run by the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Limited (which was also the prize’s name until 2016).

The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Limited’s company details are as follows:

Registered name: The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Limited

Company number 04389133

Registered in London, UK

Office 605, Albert House, 256-260 Old Street, London, United Kingdom, EC1V 9DD