Incoming 2010 SLA Chapter Cabinet Chair-elect
Liz Blankson-Hemans
Biography
Liz Blankson-Hemans is Director, Market Development for Dialog, with oversight for strategic planning and implementation of marketing outside North America.
Included in this role is the responsibility for driving customer-facing market relationships such as the Dialog Advisory Board, conference and professional association sponsorship and event planning, external customer events and information professional market programmes and promotions including the Quantum2 Leadership Development and the Graduate Education Programmes in the region. She regularly presents workshops and seminars at a variety of industry conferences.
Prior to Dialog, she was manager of the Central Information Services at Clifford Chance, the international law firm, where she was responsible for providing a wide range of resources and services, including managing vendor supply relationships and contract negotiation, research and reference services as well as resource and systems management.
Liz has been a member of SLA since 1997 and attended her first conference at Indianapolis in 1998. Since then she has served her association at various levels, local and international. She has served in several capacities on the SLA Europe board, including Membership Secretary, Diversity Chair and Early Careers Committee, and was President of the Chapter in 2004-2005. Additionally she has served as a member of the Nominating Committee, the DLDP Committee, has been Inclusion Caucus convenor, and is currently a member of the Public Relations Advisory Council.
She is also a member of the Australia & New Zealand Chapter and of several divisions including B&F, ITE, Legal, LMD, News and Solo divisions. For several years, she contributed the "International Column" of the Legal Division Quarterly.
Liz lives just outside London in the UK, with her husband and teenage-"I'm taller than you now, Mum"-son.
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