Michael Healy

Michael Healy is the Executive Director, Rightsholder and International Relations, at CCC. Before joining CCC, he was Executive Director of The Book Rights Registry, and previously Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group. Healy has worked in the publishing and information industry for more than 35 years and has spent most of that time in senior editorial, sales, and distribution roles. He has been closely involved in the development of standards for the international publishing industry and is especially associated with standards for metadata, product information, and persistent identifiers. Healy has led many international standards groups, was Chairman of the International ISBN Agency, a Director of the International DOI Foundation, and led the international ISO committee that developed ISBN-13. He is currently Chairman of the Board of The International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) and a board member of EDITEUR, the international publishing standards body.