Jean du Preez is Chief Financial Officer at Taylor & Francis.

Jean joined Taylor & Francis in June 2025 from Future PLC, a digital media platform for specialist content, where he was latterly Deputy Chief Financial Officer.

Before Future PLC, Jean spent over 11 years at a FTSE 10 FMCG Group in several roles across both Group and End Markets, more notably in the last 6 years in Finance Director roles based in Prague, Poland and Canada. In these roles he helped leadership teams launch new category revenue streams and developed growth turn-around strategies.

Having lived in 6 different countries, Jean has extensive experience of developing high performing teams and functions across a range of cultures and nationalities. He thrives on building relationships with people from diverse backgrounds to simplify financial concepts, promoting progress through better financial knowledge sharing.

Jean trained as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa with Deloitte.

Jean’s extensive background and experience combined with his strong leadership, commercial and financial experience supports Taylor & Francis to fulfil our purpose of fostering human progress through knowledge.