Germany
Guest of the book fair
In the early 1980s, he was trained as a publisher at the Herder Verlag publishing house and has gained degrees in both marketing and organisational Theory. He became the President and the CEO of the Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH (the Frankfurt Book Fair) in 2005. On 20 November 2013, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. In January 2017, Juergen Boos received an honorary degree from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. In February 2018, he was conferred the cultural distinction of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters at the French embassy in Berlin. Furthermore, he has been a Commander by Number of the Spanish Order of Isabella the Catholic since October 2022 and a knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit since February 2023. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and a member of the German Book Prize Academy (Akademie Deutscher Buchpreis).
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