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Keating, Roly

Roly Keating

Elected: 2018

Roly Keating has been Chief Executive of the British Library since 2012. He has overseen a series of significant developments, including the historic move to large-scale digital collecting through legal deposit; the incorporation into the Library of the Public Lending Right service; the Library’s successful and popular 800th-anniversary commemorations of Magna Carta; and the launch of the Knowledge Quarter, an innovative partnership of over 70 knowledge-based organisations near the Library in King’s Cross. Roly is a member of the board of Channel 4 and a Trustee of the Clore Leadership Programme. He chairs the Conference of European National Librarians

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Fellowship Election Process​

Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.