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New appointments to IPA’s leadership bodies
Geneva, 14 October 2014
The International Publishers Association has made a number of new appointments during its annual General Assembly in Frankfurt.
Michiel Kolman of Elsevier has been elected IPA Vice President while Brian Wafawarowa of Pearson South Africa and Bodour Al Qasimi of Kalimat Publishing Group have joined the IPA Executive Committee (EC). Trasvin Jittidecharak of Silkworm Books, Riccardo Cavallero of Mondadori and Asoke Ghosh of PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd have all been re-elected to the EC. Simon Littlewood of Random House will replace Bloomsbury’s Richard Charkin on the EC once Mr Charkin takes up office as IPA President in January 2015.
Paul Doda of Elsevier is the new chair of IPA’s Copyright Committee, while Ibrahim El Moallem and Ana María Cabanellas have left the Executive Committee, having completed their terms of office.
IPA President Youngsuk ‘Y.S.’ Chi commented: “I would particularly like to thank Ana María Cabanellas and Ibrahim El Moallem for their service, each over a dozen active years. Ana María has been a powerful speaker for the publishing industry in Latin America. She has led IPA as president (2004-2008) and has drawn attention all over the world on the issues of piracy, free circulation of materials and the role of publishing in emerging countries.
Ibrahim has provided wisdom, insight and leadership to IPA particularly by putting the Arab publishing industry on the world map. Through him we have witnessed the struggles of publishers in these times of momentous changes in this region. It has been an honour to serve with a publisher who has risked his life, livelihood and future by standing up for the values of freedom of expression and freedom to publish.”
IPA is deeply indebted to both Ana María and Ibrahim for their tireless efforts and count on their continued engagement with us on the issues that they care so passionately about.”
Note to Editors
- The International Publishers Association is the international federation of national publishers associations, representing all aspects of book and journal publishing from around the world. IPA is an industry association with a human rights mandate. It fights against censorship and promotes copyright, literacy and freedom to publish, around the world. www.internationalpublishers.org
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