Pro-Vice-Provost (University College London Library Services). He is also the UCL copyright officer and in August 2013 became chief executive of UCL Press.

He is a member of the Provost and President’s senior management team at UCL. He was the president of LIBER [Association of European Research Libraries] from 2010 to 2014; he is now an advisor to the LIBER Board. He is co-chair of the LERU [League of European Research Universities] INFO [Information and Open Access] Community.

He chairs the Open Archives Initiative organising committee for the CERN/University of Geneva workshops on innovations in scholarly communication. He is also the chair of the Jisc Content Strategy Group. He has a PhD in ecclesiastical history and publishes on English Reformation studies.