About
Board of Advisors
Chairperson
Ms Claire Chiang
Senior Vice President of Banyan Tree Gallery (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Members
Mr Ashok Nath
Chairman and Conference Director, Exedra Events
Philippines
Ms. Ma. Andrea D. Pasion-Flores
Executive Director, National Book Development Board
Philippines
Mr Christopher Cheng
Writer and Storyteller
Australia
Mr Colin Goh
CEO, The Arts House
Singapore
Mr Daniel Hahn
Programme Director, British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT)
United Kingdom
Ms Evelyn Wong
Consultant, Writer
Singapore
Dr Ken Spillman
Author
Australia
Mdm Le Phuong Lien
Director, Doraemon Education, Support Fund of Kim Dong Publishing House
Vietnam
Ms Linda Tan Lingard
Director, Yusof Gajah Lingard Literary Agency
Malaysia
Mr M. A Sikandar
Director, National Book Trust India
India
Ms Maggie Tan
Senior Vice President, Scholastic India & South East Asia, and Chief Financial Officer
Malaysia
Ms Misako Ohnuki
Deputy Director, International Research Centre for ICH in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI)
Japan
Dr. Murti Bunanta
Children’s Literature Specialist and President, Society for the Advancement of Children’s Literature
Indonesia
Ms Nellie Dato Paduka Haji Sunny
President, Brunei Darussalam Library Association
Brunei Darussalam
Mr Nury Vittachi
Author and Columnist
Hong Kong
Mr R Ramachandran
Executive director, National Book Development Council of Singapore
Singapore
Ms Rina Lopez-Bautista
President / Executive Director, Knowledge Channel
Philippines
Dr Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Professor, University of California
United States of America
Ms Sing-Ju Chang
Executive Director, Hsin-Yi Foundation
Taiwan
Ms Tang Sulan
Author and Professor, School of Literature at Hunan Normal University
China
Dr That Thaw Kaung
CEO, Myanmar Book Centre, and Managing Director, Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
Myanmar
Ms Toyoko Hirata
Executive Producer, NHK Educational TV
Japan