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