At its Annual General Meeting on July 23, 2013 Bloomsbury Publishing plc announced the appointment of Jill Jones as an Independent Non-Executive Director effective from the close of the AGM. Jill Jones is an independent publishing consultant and during her career has held senior positions in leading publishing services businesses. From 2008 until 2012 she was President and CEO (EMEA) of Cengage Learning.

Before this she has held positions in Pearson Education, Thomson Learning, Longman and Prentice Hall. Jill has worked in Higher Education and Schools textbook and revision publishing, English Language Teaching and reference publishing including the development of large electronic and primary source material databases. She is former Chair of the Academic Publishers group at the Publishers Association.

The company also announced that Jeremy Wilson will retire as Chairman of the Board over the coming year. The recruitment of a successor to Jeremy Wilson is underway and Jeremy will step down once his replacement has been found.