Juergen Boos (born 9 May 1961 in Lörrach, Germany) is the President and CEO of Frankfurt Book Fair.
[1] Juergen Boos trained as a publisher at Herder Verlag (Freiburg) in the early 1980s and has degrees in both Marketing and Organisational Theory.
[5] On 11 February 2023, Juergen Boos was made a Knight 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V of Norway.
Boos later explained in an official statement that the Frankfurt Book Fair always was a "marketplace for freedom" and because of that having China as the annual 'guest country' was expected to be a tightrope walk in some fields.
[8][9] In 2015, Boos invited Salman Rushdie to be the speaker of the opening press conference of Frankfurter Buchmesse.