Board of Advisors
Chairperson

Ms Claire Chiang
Senior Vice President,
Banyan Tree Gallery (Singapore) Pte Ltd
Vice Chairman

Mr Nury Vittachi
Author and Columnist,
Hong Kong
Executive Secretary

Mr R Ramachandran
Executive director,
National Book Development Council of Singapore
Singapore
Members

Mr Ashok Nath
Chairman and Conference Director,
Exedra Events
Philippines

Atty Ma. Andrea D. Pasion-Flores
Literary Agent,
Jacaranda Literary Agency
Philippines

Mr Christopher Cheng
Writer and Storyteller
Australia

Mr Colin Goh
CEO,
The Rice Company Limited
Singapore

Ms Durreen Shahnaz
Founder,
Impact Investment Exchange and Shujog
Singapore

Ms Evelyn Wong
Consultant, Writer
Singapore

Dr Ken Spillman
Author
Australia

Mdm Le Phuong Lien
Deputy Head of Children's Literature Department,
Vietnam Writer Association.
Vietnam

Ms Linda Tan Lingard
Director,
Yusof Gajah Lingard Literary Agency
Malaysia

Mr Manas Ranjan Mahapatra
Head, National Centre for Children's Literature,
National Book Trust India
India

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

Ms Sher-Li Torrey
Founder, Moms@Work
Singapore

Dr Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Professor,University of California
United States of America

Ms Selina Lee
Vice President,
Book Club, Education, and Trade, Scholastic Asia
Malaysia

Ms Tang Sulan
Author and Professor,
School of Literature at Hunan Normal University
China

Dr Thant Thaw Kaung
CEO, Myanmar Book Centre, and Managing Director,
Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
Myanmar

Ms Yuko Matsuoka Harris
Chairperson,
Say-zan-sha Publications Ltd
Japan