(Swedish) Chief Executive Officer since 2009. Joined Reed Elsevier as Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier in 2004. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier was a partner at General Atlantic Partners. Before that was president and chief operating officer of Random House Inc and, before its merger with Random House, president and chief executive officer of Bantam Doubleday Dell, North America. Began his career as a consultant with McKinsey. Served as a non-executive director of Eniro AB and Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA. Holds a BSc from Stockholm School of Economics, an MSc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and gained an MBA from Harvard Business School as a Fulbright Scholar.
Erik Engstrom
Reed Elsevier
1-3 Strand
London WC2N 5JR
United Kingdom
(British/American) Chief Financial Officer since November 2012. Joined Reed Elsevier as Chief Financial Officer – Designate in August 2012. Non-executive director of Oshkosh Corporation since July 2011. Prior to joining Reed Elsevier was Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Owens Corning Inc. from 2007 having previously held various senior finance positions within Royal Dutch Shell for 20 years in the UK, the Netherlands and the US. He holds an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and an MBA from Stanford University. He is a UK-qualified Chartered Management Accountant.
Contact details Duncan Palmer
Reed Elsevier
1-3 Strand
London WC2N 5JR
United Kingdom
(German) Non-executive director since 2013. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee. Dr Hauser is Chief Executive Officer of Intertek Group plc, a FTSE 100 company and a global provider of quality solutions to a wide range of industries around the world. He has held that position since 2005 after serving as a non-executive director since 2002. He was Chairman of Dragenopharm GmbH & Co AG from 2002 to 2006. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of TÜV Süddeutschland AG, the largest testing and inspection company in Germany, from 1998 to 2002 and before that was Chief Executive Officer of TÜV Product Services GmbH, an international testing and certification company, for 10 years. Dr Hauser was also a non-executive director of Logica plc from 2007 to 2012. He started his career as a scientist in pharmacology and ergonomics, was a successful inventor, has over 50 publications to his name and has established and led a broad range of successful international service businesses for more than 30 years.
Contact details Dr Wolfhart Hauser
Reed Elsevier
1-3 Strand
London WC2N 5JR
United Kingdom
