Peter Donoughue graduated from the University of Sydney in 1973 with a first class honors degree in English Literature.

He has been a member of the publishing community for nearly 36 years. He started in 1974, working for McGraw-Hill for eight years, including two years running their operation in Japan.

He joined Wiley Australia in 1982 and worked in various senior marketing and publishing roles until being appointed Managing Director in March 1993. 

He was a board member of the Australian Publishers' Association for 10 years beginning in 1987, becoming President in 1996 for a two-year term.  He was also convenor of the APA's Education committee for four years in the 1990s and a member of the Copyright Committee for several years.  He was a Director of the Copyright Agency (CAL) for two five-year stints in the1990s. He has presented numerous papers to a variety of industry conferences over the years, and drafted several APA submissions, particularly in the copyright arena. He also contributed the chapter on Educational Publishing to Making Books, Contemporary Australian Publishing (Ed. David Carter, Anne Galligan, UQP 2007).

Peter retired in August, 2008, but is still an active and critical voice in the industry via his blog Pub Date Critical (www.peterdonoughue.blogspot.com)