Kevin Fitzgerald CMG

Kevin Fitzgerald CMG is Secretary General of The International Authors' Forum and a Member of the Governing Body at Regent's College, University of Oxford.  

He was a Director at the UN World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva for ten years until 2025. He was previously Chief Executive of the UK’s Copyright Licensing Agency from 2007 to 2014 and Chair of the European Union Group for Reproduction Rights Organisations from 2008 to 2015.

In earlier roles he was the Independent Member of the Public Diplomacy Partners Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Non-Executive Director of the East of England Tourist Board, Managing Director of Rough Guides and leader of the Better World campaign for DFID (the Department for International Development).

He became a Trustee of Prisoners Abroad in 2008 and took on the role of Chair between 2009 and 2014.

In 2013 Kevin was awarded a CMG for “services to British economic interests, particularly the promotion of intellectual property internationally and the welfare of British nationals in prison abroad”.