Miranda McKearney

Miranda McKearney is Director of The Reading Agency, an independent charity with a mission to get more people reading more. The agency's work includes policy, research, advocacy and national programmes (with an emphasis on innovation). Since The Reading Agency came into being in 2002 it has led some powerful national reading programmes, including the Summer Reading Challenge, the nation's biggest annual promotion of children's reading.

The Reading Agency also brokers and leads major partnerships between the public library network and partners as diverse as Orange, BBC Learning, Richard and Judy's Book Club, the National Youth Agency and twelve major publishers. The Reading Agency led the library engagement programme for the National Year of Reading during which 2.3m people joined the library.

Miranda was awarded an OBE in 2006 for services to education and libraries.