2025 Speaker Bios: The NYU Advanced Publishing Institute

Co-founder & CEO, Created by Humans

CEO of the Sharjah Book Authority

Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives

President and CEO, Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH

Senior Director of Marketing, HarperCollins

Executive Vice President/General Manager, Freakonomics Radio Network

Adj. Assoc. Professor, Division of Programs in Business, NYU School of Professional Studies

President, Cake Creative Kitchen and Electric Postcard Entertainment

Publisher of AudioFile magazine and MMB Media and Partner at Forte Business Consulting

Founder, Counterspace Design & Digital Solutions

Editor, The New York Times Book Review

CEO, Barnes & Noble

Senior Director of Books, Barnes & Noble

President, KF Literary Scouting LLC

SVP, Director of Integrated Marketing Strategy, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Co-founder and editor, The Hot Sheet

Clinical Assoc. Professor at NYU SPS

Founder and Director, The Pitch Agency

Global Head of Publisher and Partner Relations, Audible Inc.

Author, Wimpy Kid Series

President & Group CEO Baker + Taylor Group of Companies

Global Head of Books at at WME

President and CEO, Abrams

Co-founder, CEO, and Publisher of Authors Equity

Senior International and Bookselling Editor, Publishers Weekly

Senior Manager of Strategic Insights, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Director of the Culture B.U. of BolognaFiere

Publisher and CEO, Sourcebooks

Chief Executive Officer and Publisher, Ulysses Press

Founder and CEO of Shimmr AI

Vice President of Culture Programming, NPR

Head of Original Content Development & Publishing, Scribd, Inc.

CEO, Hachette Book Group US and Hachette UK

Founder, Good and Feral

Founder and Principal Consultant, Expansive Commerce

Founder and CEO, Zando

Bestselling author and Bookseller

Professor and Academic Director NYU School of Professional Studies

Guest Director, BolognaBookPlus

VP/Publisher, Dey Street Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins

Executive Director, Client Development, Books, Circana