John Mitchinson is Director of Research for Quite Interesting Limited (QI), Managing Director of the QI Club in Oxford, and he writes QI, the BAFTA short-listed BBC2 quiz show. For the ten years before QI, he was a book publisher, running the Harvill Press, Cassell & Co and acting as Deputy Publisher of the Orion Group, now the UK’s third largest publisher. Prior to that he spent six years as Marketing Director of Waterstone’s the booksellers.

John is a Vice-President of the Hay Festival, a director of Jonathan Burrows contemporary dance group and a Fellow of the RSA. His spare time is consumed by rare breed pigs, chickens, vegetables and small children, though not necessarily in that order.

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