The Head of Editorial, Colleen Ovelman, is responsible for strategic oversight of the Central Editorial Service.

Liz Bickerdike is the Executive Editor of the Central Editorial Service leads the team and oversees the quality assessment, peer review process, editing, and publication of Cochrane Reviews.

Joey Kwong, Sam Hinsley and Jo Duffield are the Senior Managing Editors for the Central Editorial Service. They each lead a team of Managing Editors, as well as their own review portfolio, and ensure that their teams deliver timely and high-quality protocols and reviews.

Anne-Marie Stephani, Anupa Shah, Leanne Jones and Ben Ridley are Managing Editors led by Jo Duffield (cluster 1). Marwah Anas El-Wegoud, Luisa Fernandez and Jessica Thomas (consultancy ME) are Managing Editors led by Joey Kwong (cluster 2). Hannah Payne, Sue Marcus, Jenny Bellorini are Managing Editors led by Sam Hinsley (cluster 3). Cluster 3 also includes Justin Mann and Sara Hales-Brittain who split their time between a Managing Editor role and other roles. They are responsible for making editorial decisions about submitted manuscripts, managing the peer review process and ensuring that high quality protocols and reviews are delivered for publication.

Lisa Wydryznski is the Editorial Assistant for the Central Editorial Service, and is responsible for supporting the editorial process, managing submission tracking, and conducting submission and technical checks on manuscripts.

Justin Mann and Leticia Rodrigues are the Assistant Editors for the Central Editorial Service. Justin is responsible for conducting submission and technical checks on manuscripts, managing appeals and developing Editorial Manager reports. Leticia is responsible for supporting the editorial process, workflows and workloads within the team, and conducting submission and technical checks on manuscripts.

Jo Platt is the Information Specialist for the Central Editorial Service. Jo provides feedback on the search methods for submitted protocols, reviews and updates, oversees the information specialist peer review pool and develops IS peer review training and resources.

Nuala Livingstone is Senior Quality Assurance Editor for the Central Editorial Service. Nuala overseas the methods quality assurance process. She leads Jennifer Hilgart, Quality Assurance Editor, Jo-Ana Chase and Clare Miles, Assistant Quality Assurance Editors. Jennifer provides methods quality assurance on reviews submitted to the Central Editorial Service, as well as developing the tools and processes for methods peer review. Jo-Ana and Clare also provide methods quality assurance on reviews submitted to the Central Editorial Service.

Sara Hales-Brittain, Jacob Hester, Jessenia Hernandez, and Addie Smyth are members of J&J’s editorial team. They provide support with new review and update proposals, submission and technical checks and managing the peer-review process.