About

Board of Advisors

Chairperson

Claire Chiang

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

Vice Chairman

Nury Vittachi

Mr Nury Vittachi
Author and Columnist
Hong Kong

Executive Secretary

R Ramachandran

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

Members

Mr Ashok Nath
Chairman and Conference Director, Exedra Events
Philippines

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

Mr Christopher Cheng
Writer and Storyteller
Australia

Mr Colin Goh
CEO, The Arts House
Singapore

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

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

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

Ms Selina Lee
Director, Trade (Asia) & Scholastic Early English Program (SEA), Scholastic
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
Chairwoman, Say-zan-sha Publications Ltd
Japan