Sayri Karp

She is currently the director of the University of Guadalajara Publishing House. Since 2015 she has chaired the Association of University Publishers of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). She is co-founder of the Altexto Network of University and Academic Publishers of Mexico and a member of its Advisory Council. She is part of the organizing committee of the International Forum of University and Academic Publishing, which takes place within the framework of the activities for professionals of the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

In 2018 he received the distinction of University Editorial Merit awarded by the University Book Fair, organized by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, and the Recognition for University Editor Rubén Bonifaz Nuño awarded by UNAM within the framework of the International Book Fair of the University and University Students (Filuni).

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening

Christie Henry

Director of Princeton University Press (PUP), an independent non-profit publisher with offices in Beijing, Oxford and Princeton. PUP has a global and diverse book publishing portfolio and was the first university press to launch an audio imprint and speakers agency. Christie serves on the boards and committees of the Association of American Publishers, the Association of University Presses, the International Publishers Association, several publishers and bookstores, and teaches several global publishing courses.

Inés ter Horst

Graduate in Law from Laval University, Québec, Master in International Relations from the Ortega y Gasset Institute (Carlos III University) in Madrid, and Master in Intellectual Property from the Franklin Pierce Law Center, University of New Hampshire, USA. his career in the publishing world in 2002 in Madrid, managing translation and publication rights of literary works of the 20th century, later he entered university publishing managing the translation rights of the collection of The University of Chicago Press. From 2015 to 2018 she directed the Contracts and Licensing department at the University of Texas Press, and since 2018 she directed the Intellectual Property department at Princeton University Press.

Brigitta van Rheinberg

Associate Director of Princeton University Press (PUP) and Director of Global Development. She oversees PUP's Intellectual Property Department, with a newly created audio and digital division; She also collaborates closely with the newly created (2017) editorial office in Beijing, which is a crucial milestone in PUP's effort to build a thriving global university press. She has been at the publishing house for more than 30 years performing various functions: sales, international rights and editing. For more than 25 years she was the editor of historical content, publishing some of the most important books in American, European and World History, from 2006 to 2016 she directed the Publications Editorial Program as editor-in-chief.
Brigitta has a PhD in History from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and lives in Princeton.

Andrew Brewer

He began his professional life as a bookseller in London, before joining The University Press Group in the 1990s, becoming managing director of the group in 2003. After fifteen years' experience managing sales in the UK, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia for Princeton, California and Columbia University Presses, joined Princeton University Press as director of international sales in 2018.

Kelley Squazzo

Director of Library and Publisher Relations for Project MUSE, a project at Johns Hopkins University Press in Baltimore, Maryland. Throughout her career in academic publishing, she has brought expertise in acquisitions, product development, and sales strategies for books, magazines, and digital works. In her leadership role at Project MUSE, she develops and implements sustainable, forward-looking business models that support the shared missions of her publishing partners and library clients. She is a firm defender of open access publications in the humanities and social sciences to achieve a more inclusive and equitable academic ecosystem. She holds a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Maryland and occasionally teaches humanities classes at a local community college.

John W. Warren

Director and professor in the Master of Publishing program at George Washington University. He has over 25 years of experience in marketing, distribution and e-books. He was a director of George Mason University Press, and led marketing and sales efforts at Georgetown University Press, the RAND Corporation, and the Fund for Economic Culture in the United States. Master in International Business Administration from the School of Strategy and Global Policy at the University of California. He is the author of several articles on the evolution of e-books, including “Innovation and the Future of e-Books” (2009), for which he was awarded the International Award for Excellence in Book Development.

Pascal Rouleau

Doctor in Political Science, specialized in Eastern Europe, he has taught for several years in a master's degree in publishing, parallel to his career as editorial director. He has worked for several publishers, including CNRS Editions, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, where he developed hard science and social science series; Elsevier, where he created two medical journals, and Pearson, where he was collection director of a series of essays.
He is currently Director of Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme at the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme in Paris. Concerned about the dissemination of knowledge and its importance in a networked world marked by the opposition between knowledge and beliefs, he strives to promote exchanges between international academic publishing productions with a constant concern for critical thinking.

Ismael Gómez García

Director of Global Digital Strategy of the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI). With 75 years of history, the OEI is the leading multilateral cooperation organization of the Ibero-American system, and the one with the greatest presence in the region. He worked in the field of educational publishing, focusing for more than 15 years on the digital field, at the precise moment when the sector was going through a time of change and technological transformation. In 2021, he founded Editorial Ferragosto, with which he began to explore the possibilities of Web3 for digital book publishing. In 2022 he published Quien te manda, by Yehudit Mam, the first NFT book, completely on-chain. And, also, in Spanish.

Other activities involving the participant:

What is the value of digital books? NFT books and the new horizons of the publishing profession

Martha Esparza

Graduate in Education from the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA), master in Education from the Universidad Panamericana, Bonaterra Campus, master in Publishing from the University of Salamanca. She is Head of the Editorial Department at the UAA, where she has worked in academic publishing for just over 35 years. She was coordinator of the Altexto National Network, 2017-2021. She collaborated on the Board of Council of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry, 2021-2023. She participated in the coordination of the book Camino when editing… The first three decades of the Altexto Network (Altexto, 2022).

Lía Castillo Meneses

Administrator of Tourism Training Companies. She is the Marketing and Sales coordinator of the UPC Publishing House (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences), an area in which she has collaborated since 2007. Her professional experience has focused on issues of promotion and dissemination of services from companies dedicated to communication and higher training. Its participation in international fairs, business conferences and professional conferences since 2010 has garnered co-editions with important academic and university publishers, such as Johns Hopkins University, University of Guadalajara, Thames & Hudson, Taylor & Francis, Ediciones de la U and Ecoe Ediciones among others. Likewise, and fulfilling her mission of promoting the Peruvian publishing industry, she has obtained agreements for both the sale and purchase of translation and reproduction rights of academic books of interest to the university community of the region. She has promoted the formation of the collective of Peruvian academic and university publishers, EU Perú, being president for two consecutive periods (2019-2022).

Patricia Corona

She studied Journalism and Letters at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and has a master's degree in Journalism from the University of Barcelona-Columbia. She has been a university professor, journalist and editor in different media. As General Editor of Ediciones UC, publishing imprint of the Catholic University of Chile, she has participated in various international book fairs, such as Bogotá, Guadalajara, Frankfurt or Filuni, where she has signed co-publishing and translation agreements with leading academic publishers around the world.
She is one of the founders of REDUCH, Network of Chilean University Editorials, and as its representative has been part of the EULAC board.

Juan Felipe Córdoba Restrepo

Doctor in History. Editorial director of the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. He is a member of the Consultative Committee of Scielo Livros, Brazil. He was president of the Association of University Publishers of Colombia (ASEUC) and the Association of University Publishers of Latin America and the Caribbean (EULAC). He has published in various national journals and international peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of the book Academic Edition and Dissemination. Open book in Ibero-America (2018), among other publications. He was a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the University of Antioquia. He is part of the Research Group on the Academic Book of the Institute of Philosophy at the Center for Human and Social Sciences of the Higher Council for Scientific Research of Spain. In 2019, he received the recognition for the Ibero-American university editor “Rubén Bonifaz Nuño” granted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Susan Collins

Community Manager at Crossref, focuses on programs to make membership benefits accessible to the global community. These include the Crosssref Sponsor and Global Equitable Membership programs. He works closely with colleagues from the Public Knowledge Project in developing collaborative OJS/Crossref projects.

Juan Felipe Vargas

Systems Engineer, specialist in Senior Management, has worked for more than 10 years contributing to the editorial work of scientific publications. He was component coordinator of the National System of Open Access to Knowledge (Colombia) and has served as assistant and editorial advisor for various scientific publications in Colombia, Ecuador and Spain. He is co-founder and currently director of Journals & Authors, a company that supports scientific publications by improving editorial quality and scientific dissemination through the creation of methodologies that allow the optimization of editorial processes.

María Ramos-Escamilla

Doctor in Economics from the National Polytechnic Institute, she has trained more than 5,000 postgraduates around the world and is the author of more than 200 works in international economics and fractal modeling. She has participated in various international research groups, obtaining recognition in economics and finance. With 25 years of experience, she has edited more than 100 indexed journals on all continents and is currently the General Director of ECORFAN-MEXICO, S.C. with RENIECYT registration from CONAHCYT.

Guillermo Chávez

Deputy Director of Academic Journals and Digital Publications and Technical Secretary of the Council of Academic and Refereed Publications of the UNAM. He develops strategies to boost academic and scientific publications. He has led multiple projects on digitization, repositories and information systems. With more than 15 years of experience, he is a promoter of open access publishing and open science, the use of open source platforms such as OJS, OMP and DSPACE, and the adoption of interoperable technologies. He is also technical coordinator of the LATINDEX system and member of the technical committee of the UNAM institutional repository.

Nicolás Mejía Torres

Professional in Social Communication. Specialist in editorial production and bibliometrics. Since 2020 he is associate editor of Palabra Clave, a communication magazine in Social Sciences. He is coordinator of scientific journals at the University of La Sabana. He works with Open Journal Systems (OJS), as well as high-impact databases for scientific journals, such as Scopus, SciVal and Web of Science. He has become involved with Crossref as a tool that enhances the value of publication metadata at his institution. Enthusiastic about bibliometrics, he likes to explore with data new paths and behaviors of scientific journals of his institution and the disciplines that impact what they publish.

Arley Soto

Professional in information systems, library science and archiving, he has a specialization in Project Management and a Master's Degree in Digital Libraries. He is co-founder of Biteca SAS, a Colombian company that has provided services to libraries and publishers since 2006 and in the last two years has worked as a technical support contractor for Crossref.

Amanda Falcone

Editor and translator. She studied a degree in English Language with a particular interest in literature. She also has a specialization in Reading Promotion. She worked for the Veracruzana University Publishing House in copyright management and in making scientific works available in open access. She currently works as an independent consultant for the publishing sector, especially with university editors.

Jaime Iván Hurtado

Founder and CEO of Hipertexto, Colombia, and Netizen Digital Solutions, Mexico. Entrepreneur, expert, speaker and consultant in new technologies applied to the publishing industry. Social Communicator, Journalist and Educational Management Specialist. He has studies in Marketing and ongoing training in communication, marketing, editing, university publishing, semiotics, e-learning, e-commerce and studies in higher education. He has been a teacher in these areas for various universities.