Congratulations to Annette Thomas, head of the Nature Publishing Group, who has won the Kim Scott Walwyn prize, set up in 2004 to celebrate outstanding achievements by women in publishing.

The prize honours a career that includes 14 years at Nature Publishing Group, where Annette rose from the role of assistant editor on Nature to launch editor of Nature Cell Biology, to launch publisher of the Nature Reviews Journals, to her current position as managing director, and her appointment in 2000 to an executive director’s position at Macmillan Publishers.

Here is an article in The Guardian about Annette’s award.

And here is Richard Charkin, CEO of Macmillan, on the same topic.