Christopher Tancock has worked in STM publishing for the past two decades. He joined Elsevier in early 2006 where he initially worked on social science book projects before moving to journals. He has managed various portfolios as a journal Publisher including linguistics, history, education, sociology, and political science. He now edits Elsevier's Editors', Authors' and Reviewers' Updates and works on related communications projects. Chris has degrees in European studies and linguistics from Royal Holloway S’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre and the University of Oxford S’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre respectively and is based in Oxford. Chris is also founder of Pint of Life S’ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre, a free initiative whereby he has taught life-saving skills to more than 1,000 people in the local community and beyond.