Miranda Mckearney OBE

Miranda Mckearney OBE is Director of The Reading Agency, the UK wide development agency for libraries' work with readers and played a key role in its formation in July 2002. Miranda is leading an exciting programme of reading inspired partnerships for UK public libraries, with partners as diverse as publishers, BBC Learning, Orange, Costa and Nintendo. Miranda has a degree in English and a postgraduate diploma in Italian Renaissance art from Corpus Christi , Oxford. After university she went in to arts marketing and has worked as an activist in the reading, literature and libraries field for 25 years. Before founding The Reading Agency she worked on raising the profile of the Carnegie Medal and on National Library Week. She is married to a teacher, has two children at university and spends any spare moment reading, cooking, listening to world music or walking in the English countryside. Her current project is walking the South Downs Way in small chunks. Miranda was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to education and libraries.