The General Assembly of the International Publishers Association (IPA) has elected publisher YoungSuk "Y.S." Chi as IPA President for a renewable two-year term. There were also a large number of new appointments to IPA's Board. The announcements were made during a meeting in Frankfurt on October 7, 2010.
YoungSuk "Y.S." Chi (Elsevier, U.S.A.) received broad support from the IPA General Assembly and will be IPA President for a renewable two-year term starting on January 1, 2011. The General Assembly elected Ibrahim El Moallem (Dar El Shorouk, Egypt) and Alain Kouck (Editis, France) as Vice-Presidents. The team of President and Vice-Presidents will represent IPA throughout the world.
The IPA General Assembly also elected five new board members: Bjorn Smith-Simonsen (Pax, Norway), Michiel Kolman (Elsevier, The Netherlands), Richard Charkin (Bloomsbury Publishing, UK), Manfred Antoni (Ernst Klett AG, Germany), and Henrique Mota (Principia Editora, Portugal) will serve on the fifteen-member strong IPA Executive Committee for a three-year term.
The IPA is an international industry federation representing all aspects of book and journal publishing. Established in 1896, IPA's mission is to promote and protect publishing and to raise awareness for publishing as a force for economic, cultural and political development. Around the world IPA actively fights against censorship and promotes copyright, literacy and freedom to publish.IPA is a trade association with a human rights mandate.
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