Following online elections held in September, where all IPA Full Members voted, the IPA confirmed the results of a number of decisions and elections. The full election results are below.

The IPA’s 2024 General Assembly also represented the last for outgoing President, Karine Pansa who thanked IPA’s members for all their support and encouraged them to continue to work together to promote the book sector.

IPA President, Karine Pansa said: Publishing is so important for our societies, for our economies, and for our cultures. What an honour it has been to represent this wonderful industry. Gvantsa Jobava is going to be a great President for IPA and I can’t wait to see how she will drive the IPA forward.

IPA President-elect, Gvantsa Jobava added: I would like to thank Karine Pansa, president of IPA, for her professionalism, collegiality, and friendship. As IPA’s new President I will be asking our members: What more can we do to safeguard our courageous colleagues and authors, whose freedom is limited in many parts of the world and whose lives are in danger? What more can we do to see that copyright is respected by the technology giants and enforced by our legislators? Our obligation to society is great. I look forward to working with all IPA’s members to fulfil it.

Giovanni Hoepli, IPA Vice President-elect said: Thanks to all IPA members for engaging in these elections, for being involved in guiding our association. I am grateful to all of you for the effort each of you has put in. Looking ahead, our future challenges will also require us to work together. Collaboration is key, and I invite everyone to be ready to continue this journey as a team.

Other Election Results

IPA will welcome 1 new Full Member, 3 new Provisional Members and 1 new associate member as of 1 January 2025 bringing the membership to 105 members in 84 countries:

Full Membership:

  • Guatemala: Asociación Gremial de Editores de Guatemala (AGEG)

Provisional Membership:

  • Croatia: Association of Publishers and Booksellers of the Croatian Chamber of the Economy
  • Dominican Republic: Asociación de Industrias Editoriales de la Republica Dominicana (ADIERD)
  • Poland: Polish Chamber of Books (PIK)

Associate Member

  • Latin America: Asociación de Editoriales Universitarias de América Latina y el  Caribe (EULAC)

Elections were held and appointments made for IPA’s Executive Committee:

Executive Committee:

  • Fernando Benzo (Spain, statutory appointment)
  • Simon De Jocas (Canada)
  • Christie Henry (USA, statutory appointment)
  • Renaud Lefebvre (France, statutory appointment)
  • Manami Tamaoki (Japan, statutory appointment)

Elections were held for the Freedom to Publish and Membership Committees:

Freedom to Publish Committee :

  • Zeynep Atiker (Turkey, re-elected)
  • Sherif Bakr (Egypt, re-elected)
  • Sarah Crozier (USA, re-elected)
  • Simon De Jocas (Canada, re-elected)
  • Jaeho Kang (South Korea, re-elected)

Membership Committee :

  • Halldor Birgisson (Iceland)
  • Christie Henry (USA)

IPA thanks all those who stood for election and extends its deepest gratitude to outgoing Executive Committee members YS Chi (USA), Yumiko Hoshiba (Japan) and Patrici Tixis (Spain), for their dedication to the international publishing community during their mandates which will all end on 31 December 2024. We also thank Maria Pallante and Anna Baijars who have worked tirelessly on the Membership Committee for many years.