Hugo Setzer

Industrial Engineer from UNAM and has a Master's Degree in Business Management from the Pan American Institute of Senior Business Management, IPADE. He is, since 1990, general director of Editorial El Manual Moderno, one of the main publishers in the fields of medicine and psychology in Latin America. After many years of participation in the Executive Committee of the International Union of Editors (UIE / IPA), Hugo was vice president between 2017-2018 and president for the period 2019-2020.
He was on several occasions a member of the board of directors of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry, CANIEM and vice president in the periods 2004-2006 and 2010-2013. He received the CANIEM Award for Guild Merit in 2009.
Founding president of the Mexican Center for the Protection and Promotion of Copyright, Collective Management Society, CeMPro from 1998 to 2002.
President of the committee for Latin America and the Caribbean and member of the board of directors of the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizations, IFRRO, from 2000 to 2002.
He was a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Editors, STM, from 1998 to 2004.
He currently participates in the advisory board of the Accessible Books Consortium of the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, and in March 2022 he was elected president of the Board of Directors of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (CANIEM) for the 2022 biennium. 2024.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening
Editorial champions for Social Responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals

Armando Montes de Santiago

For 18 years he has been working on the FIL organizing committee, for many years he was in charge of international sales. He is currently in charge of the general coordination of exhibitors and professionals as well as other important projects for the FIL such as Salón del Cómic + Novela Gráfica and Libros al Gusto.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening
Presentation of the Pura Pinche Fortaleza Graphic Novel Award

Daniel Benchimol

Daniel Benchimol is director of Proyecto451, a company that has been providing services for more than 10 years in consulting, training and digital strategy development to more than 250 publishers, bookstores and public and private organizations in Latin America and Spain. Among them, Editorial Planeta, Penguin Random House, Grupo MacMillan, Anagrama, Fondo de Cultura Económica, Siglo XXI Editores, CERLALC and Fundación Leer. He works in permanent collaboration with the main guilds and chambers in the region, such as the Argentine Book Chamber, the Colombian Book Chamber and the Madrid Bookstores Guild, among others. He directs the virtual training space Academia Proyecto451, which is attended by more than 1,400 industry professionals from all over Latin America. He participated as a speaker at the most relevant events and fairs in the industry, and is a professor at universities in Argentina and Spain.

Shiran Ben Abderrazak

Shiran Ben Abderrazak is a web3 entrepreneur and a freelance cultural advisor based in Brussels since April 2022. He has a Master's degree in Political Studies from the EHESS, Paris. In 2015, he published "Journal d'une Défaite," that have been adapted to stage by the Monte Carlo's Opera choreographer. He then returned to Tunisia, where he co-founded Dar Eyquem, an artist's residency. More than 160 artists benefited from it while he directed it. In 2017, he implemented the Creative Europe Program in Tunisia and created the Tunisian Desk on behalf of the EU Delegation. He has been the executive director of the Rambourg Foundation, one of the main foundations of the country, from 2018 until 2022. He is the co-founder of Culture Sans Filtre, an audio podcast dedicated to the contemporary art creation on the African Continent and the co-founder of Mono, the first "Digital art based on NFT" physical gallery in the heart of Tunis’ Medina. Today, he is helping the art and cultural world understanding the potentialities and benefits of the Web3 technology revolution through trainings and developing projects. 

Other activities involving the participant:

An introduction to NFT Books

María Fernanda Mendoza

Graduated from the UNAM Law School with a specialty in Copyright.
She directed CEMPRO for 10 years, and contributed to the creation of the collective management entities of Panama and Costa Rica.
In the academic field, she has more than 20 years dedicated to teaching the subject, in Mexico and abroad.
She collaborated in the Spanish edition of the work “Buy and Sell Rights” by Lynette Owen, published by FCE.
She is currently a consultant for the International Authors Forum for Mexico and Latin America.

Other activities involving the participant:

Lanzamiento de “Trama”
The fine print is also obligatory.
Round table and reading

Carlos Azorín

Líder del Proyecto IP Key América Latina para la Oficina de Propiedad Intelectual de la Unión Europea (EUIPO). Carlos es Licenciado en Química, posee una maestría en Estudios Europeos y un Executive MBA. Tiene una amplia experiencia laboral en coordinación de proyectos en diversos campos, desde el sector farmacéutico hasta proyectos de cooperación internacional en materia de propiedad intelectual. Ha trabajado dirigiendo proyectos para la Oficina de Propiedad Intelectual de la Unión Europea (EUIPO) durante la última década, apoyando el aumento de la protección y aplicación de la propiedad intelectual en Europa y América Latina. También ha colaborado como profesor universitario en temas de administración de proyectos y gestión de la innovación.

Jorge Peydro Aznar

Ministro-Consejero y jefe de la Sección Económica-Comercial de la Delegación de la Unión Europea en México. Durante su administración, ha negociado y promocionado, entre otros, la protección de la propiedad intelectual, ha supervisado la modernización del tratado de libre comercio entre la UE y México, y ha impartido conferencias sobre las relaciones comerciales de la UE con América Latina. También ha publicado sobre los acuerdos internacionales para la protección de la propiedad intelectual, en particular en el marco de la OMC y de la OMPI.

Gabriel Nieto Enrigue

He is the Director of Subsidiary Rights for Latin America at Grupo Planeta, a division created in 2014, which is in charge of promoting Latin American authors worldwide, as well as negotiating translation and audiovisual adaptation agreements with platforms and production companies. This area has concluded agreements in more than 35 languages in 42 countries.

In 2022 he received the Rights Connection Award from the Sharjah Book Authority and in 2020 he was one of the 3 finalists in the Rights Professional category of the London Book Fair Excellence Awards. He was in charge of the launch and operation of the FIL Guadalajara Rights Hall from 2004 to 2006.

From 2005 to 2016 he was a contributor to the prestigious magazine Expansión and from 2011 to 2014 he worked in the Representative Office of the Ministry of Economy in Tokyo.

Gabriel obtained the Master's degree in International Cooperation Policy from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, the most international university in Japan, and obtained the Bachelor's degree in International Business and Administration from the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara Campus.

José Luis Caballero

He has a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He studied copyright at WIPO, in Geneva, Switzerland and at the International Law Institute of Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. He completed the Master of Commercial Law (intellectual property) at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London. He is a specialist in intellectual and industrial property law from the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico.
He regularly writes articles and essays for publication in books, notebooks and specialized magazines on the subject. He is the author of the book “Copyright for Authors” published by the Fondo De Cultura Económica. Coordinator along with Dr. Martin Michaus of the book “Studies of Copyright and Industrial Property, tribute to Lic. José Luis Caballero Cárdenas” published in 2015 by Editorial Porrúa.
He is a professor of copyright in the master's degree in business law at the Universidad Panamericana, in the master's degree in intellectual property law at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Spain). He is a professor of the Specialty in Copyright at the Institute of Intellectual Property and Competition Law (IPIDEC Mexico).
He is a consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization and a lecturer on copyright and related rights in the Development Cooperation Program for Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in the Latin American Judges Training Program. and the Caribbean.
He has been a lawyer specializing in copyright and entertainment law for 38 years.

Quetzalli de la Concha Pichardo

She has a Law Degree with a specialty in Intellectual Property from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and has a Master's degree in Intellectual Property at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina headquarters. She is the first woman President of the Mexican Center for the Protection and Promotion of Copyright (CeMPro S.G.C) of which she is currently legal advisor and vice president.

Other activities involving the participant:

Digital piracy

Carlos Anaya

Rector of the University of Book Sciences and Arts (UNICAL). Vice President of the Coalition for Legal Access to Culture, A. C. Until April 2020 he was Vice President of Grupo Noriega Editores and for 30 years Production Director of the same group. With more than 50 years of experience in the sector. He was President of the board of directors of CANIEM. He received the Guild Merit medal in 2013.

André Breedt

Andre Breedt is Managing Director of Nielsen BookData, the market leader in metadata supply, discovery, sales measurement, consumer research and commerce solutions for the book industry internationally. The company is also responsible for the ISBN and SAN Agencies for the UK & Ireland.

Andre’s background is in book retail and market research. Since joining Nielsen BookData he has worked on projects ranging from analysing the Chinese book market to the expansion of the digital market. He has been influential in the launch of new Nielsen BookScan markets, including Brazil, Mexico and India and is currently leading expansion efforts globally.

In his role as MD, Andre has worked with numerous industry associations and bodies to develop standards and best practices, which are used internationally.

Dimiter Gantchev

Mr. DIMITER GANTCHEV is Deputy Director in the Copyright and Creative Industries Sector in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. In his professional activities in WIPO Mr. Gantchev focuses on issues related to the economics of copyright and related rights, their contribution to economic development as well as the use of copyright by creators in their everyday activities. He has been in charge of research projects in WIPO on establishing methodologies for assessing the economic, social and cultural impact of copyright on the creative industries, estimating the impact of copyright piracy, providing evidence for policy making and enforcement policies on copyright as well as capacity-building and awareness building on creative industries.

Mr. Gantchev is a national of Bulgaria. He holds a PhD in economics from the Sofia University of National and World Economy and an MA in international relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He is a Founding Member of the Bulgarian National Association on Intellectual Property. Mr. Gantchev has numerous publications on creative industries, intellectual property and foreign policy issues.

Gvantsa Jobava

Gvantsa Jobava is the Vice President of the International Publishers Association and the past president of Georgian Publishers and Booksellers Association. She holds the position of the Head of International Affairs at Intelekti Publishing, one of the leading publishing houses in Georgia. 
 
Since 2013, Gvantsa Jobava has been lobbying for the Georgian publishing industry, advocating Georgian publishers’ interests and rights. She has managed a number of projects to promote the Georgian publishing and literary industry at an international level, including Georgia’s “Guest of Honour” publishing program at the 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair. In addition, she is a member of Women Publishers’ International Network – PublisHer and PEN Georgia. In 2013-2022 she was the organizer of the Tbilisi International Book Festival.

Gvantsa Jobava is a poet and the translator of works of John Steinbeck, Chinua Achebe, Saul Bellow, John Lennon and others. She has also translated Anna Politkovskaya’s book Putin’s Russia and A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky into Georgian. 

Other activities involving the participant:

Poesía georgiana contemporánea

José Borghino

José Borghino has been Secretary General of the International Publishers Association, Geneva, since September 2015. He joined the IPA as Policy Director in 2013, and was in charge of policy development, organizing the Prix Voltaire (IPA’s Freedom to Publish Prize), and managing the IPA’s activities in the educational publishing sector, including the annual ‘What Works?’ conference and the Educational Publishers Forum. Before joining the IPA, José worked as Manager of Industry Representation at the Australian Publishers Association. He has been Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors, a lecturer in literary journalism and creative industries at the University of Sydney, and editor of the online news magazine NewMatilda.com. José held senior positions at the Literature Board of the Australia Council and was the founding editor of EDITIONSReview.

Lawrence Schimel

(Nueva York, 1971)
Es escritor bilingüe (español/inglés) de más de 130 libros en muchos géneros. Es también un prolífico traductor literario, de más de 160 libros. Ha traducido al inglés a Carmen Boullosa, Juan Villoro, Elsa Cross, Ricardo Chávez Castañeda y Alberto Chimal, y al español a Maggie Nelson, George Takei, Koleka Putuma y Danez Smith, entre otros. Vive en Madrid.

Other activities involving the participant:

Cuadernos de Granada: notes on the crossover between English and Spanish in Canadian literature
Between Quebec, the United States and Mexico, the queer and the indie in the three friends

David Unger

David Unger nació en la Ciudad de Guatemala en 1950. En 2014 fue otorgado el Premio Nacional de Literatura Miguel Ángel Asturias de Guatemala por su trayectoria literaria. Ha publicado El topo pecoso/Moley Mole (Green Seed Publishing), Vivir en el maldito trópico (Guatemala: FyG Editores, 2016), El manipulador (Planeta México, 2015), El precio de la fuga (Guatemala: FyG Editores, 2013), La Casita (México: CIDCLI, 2012), , Para mí, eres divina (México: RandomHouseMondadori, 2011, Storytel 2018) y Ni chicha ni limonada (FyG Editores, Guatemala, 2019). Ha traducido dieciséis libros del español al inglés, entre ellos El legato secreto, La niña de Chimel y El vaso de miel de Rigoberta Menchú; El Popol Vuh, de la versión de Víctor Montejo; y El amor que me juraste de Silvia Molina y en 2022 Penguin Classics público su traducción de El Señor Presidente de Miguel Ángel Asturias, Premio Nobel de 1967.

Alejandro Santiago Hernández

Alejandro Santiago (Spain, 1985) librarian by training. After passing through different Spanish and European institutions, since 2019 he has been a Technician of the Bibliographic Service of the Spanish National Organization of the Blind and is in charge of its Marrakech Office, in charge of managing the application of the Marrakech Treaty.

Other activities involving the participant:

Mechanisms and good practices for inclusive intellectual property

Juan Pablo Bellini

Juan Pablo Bellini is co-founder and CEO of ReadingU. ReadingU is the pioneer Audiobook producer in Latin America. He has trained narrators, voice actors, sound technicians and studios in the art of audiobook production. Today it has produced more than 1,250 audiobooks, with studios in Argentina, São Paulo, Madrid and New York. Produces in Spanish in all accents, in Portuguese and in English.

Manuel Guerra Zamarro

Manuel Guerra is a lawyer who graduated with honors from the Anáhuac University and completed his doctorate in Business Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Anáhuac University.
He has received numerous recognitions throughout his career, including the "Anáhuac Leadership in Law 2014" Medal and the United Nations Award for Public Service 2015 and the Management Improvement Award from the Ministry of Public Education (2009-20015). ) and since 2019 it has been on the list of “The Best Lawyers in Mexico” for its ethical and professional quality.
During his career, he signed important international treaties on behalf of Mexico, such as the International Treaty of Marrakesh in 2014 and the International Treaty of Beijing in 2012. In addition, he has been a partner in Intellectual Property matters in prominent law firms.
He stood out as General Director of the National Copyright Institute (INDAUTOR) for two six-year terms and has held important roles in international organizations such as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), where he chaired the Permanent Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, the WIPO Copyright Treaty Assembly, and other relevant committees, such as the Main Committee of the Beijing Treaty Diplomatic Conference, Vice President of the Marrakesh Treaty Diplomatic Conference, the Berne Union Assembly, the Executive Committee of the Berne Union, the Assembly of the WIPO Treaty on Performances and Phonograms, President of the Conference of the World Intellectual Property Organization and drafter of the International Treaty of Marrakesh and the International Treaty of Beijing.
He has also played prominent roles in legal and editorial organizations, such as the presidency in Mexico of the International Legal Honor Society "Phi Delta Phi" and his participation as Editorial Advisor in the newspaper "Reforma". He has been an active member of the legal community in Mexico, participating in the Intellectual Property Commission of the Mexican Bar Association and the Mexican Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property.