GCN Associate
FRANCES PINTER, PhD
Governance
Knowledge Creation,
Management & Dissemination
At the age of 23 Dr Frances Pinter was the first woman to set up her own publishing company in the UK. Pinter Publishers became a leader in the social sciences. Also founded the environmental studies imprint Belhaven Press and acquired the humanities imprint Leicester University Press. Subsequently was invited by philanthropist and financier George Soros to devise multi-million dollar programmes supporting publishing and education in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of Communism.
Frances Pinter has extensive international experience as an entrepreneur and leader in the commercial and non-profit sectors. She has established companies, and advised others how to set up new operations and transform existing ones. Recently she was CEO of International House Trust, which owns a premier language school in London and holds a 50% share of International House World Organisation Ltd., an affiliated network of 140 language schools in over 40 countries.
Frances is currently Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, writing a book on Hungary in Europe with former Reuters journalist Marcus Ferrar, and acting as consultant to Creative Commons.
Taking a comparative perspective on how the not-for profit sector operates and relates to business and government she published ‘Funding Global Civil Society’ in Global Civil Society: A Yearbook, Oxford University Press, 2001. Please click here to view as pdf.
Frances Pinter also drew on her field work experiences and wrote ‘The Role of Foundations in the Transition Process in Central and Eastern Europe’ published in Foundations in Europe, Bertelsmann Foundation, 2001.
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