Advisory Committee
The Booker Prize Foundation Advisory Committee advises on any changes to the rules and on the selection of the judges, and represents all aspects of the book world.
Its members are:
- Nic Bottomley – Co-Founder, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights
- Jamie Byng – Managing Director of Canongate Books
- Bea Carvalho – Head of Books, Waterstones
- James Daunt – Managing Director of Waterstones
- Jonathan Douglas – Director of the National Literacy Trust
- Adam Freudenheim – Publisher, Pushkin Press
- Daniel Hahn – Writer & Translator
- Lemara Lindsay-Prince – Senior Commissioning Editor, Merky Books
- Emma Paterson – Agent, Aitken Alexander Associates
- Fiammetta Rocco – Senior Editor and Culture Correspondent, The Economist and Administrator, The International Booker Prize
- Sarah Rogers – Director of Finance and Operations, The Booker Prize Foundation
- Michal Shavit – Publishing Director, Fern Press
- Rebecca Stratford – Executive Producer, BBC Radio
- Boyd Tonkin – former Literary Editor, The Independent
- Helen Williams – Legal Counsel of Booker Group plc
Chaired by Gaby Wood – Director, The Booker Prize Foundation