Malaysia was guest of honour at the Beijing International Book Fair, giving Sheikh Faisal Sheikh Mansour the opportunity to hold a panel on 18 June, bringing together IPA President, Gvantsa Jobava, with our Guadalajara Congress keynote speaker, Melissa Fleming, the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Chinese publisher Mingzhou Zhang, who is a Congress ambassador.
During the meaningful session, each speaker stressed the importance of publishers to meet and come together and establish professional relationship with each other, and of course, calling out to everyone to come to Kuala Lumpur next year for the Congress.
Following the event, Mansour jumped on a plane to Seoul where he held meetings with Korean publishers and was able to appoint Korean Publishers Association head, Iroo Joo, as another Congress ambassador.
The Congress is ready to accept participants now. You can purchase your congress tickets from www.publisherscongress.com.Details on accommodation options will come very soon.