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

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 and Liz Bickerdike are Senior Managing Editors for the Central Editorial Service. They each lead a team of Managing Editors and an Editorial Assistant, as well as their own review portfolio, and ensure that their teams deliver timely and high-quality protocols and reviews.

Anne-Marie Stephani, Sam Hinsley, Anupa Shah, Leanne Jones, Sue Marcus and Ben Ridley are Managing Editors led by Liz Bickerdike (cluster 1). Marwah Anas El-Wegoud, Luisa Fernandez, Jo Duffield and Hannah Payne are Managing Editors led by Joey Kwong (cluster 2). Makalapua Motu'apuaka and Jessica Thomas are consultancy based MEs. 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 cluster 2, 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.

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 provides methods quality assurance on reviews submitted to the Central Editorial Service.

Sara Hales-Brittain, Billy Lavelle and Jacob Hester 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. Kylie Bade helps identify clinical peer-referees for articles submitted to the Central Editorial Service.