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Taylor & Francis India’s Managing Director, Nitasha Devasar re-elected as the President of the Association of Publishers in India


The Association of Publishers in India, in its last Annual General Meeting has unanimously re-elected Nitasha Devasar, Managing Director, Taylor & Francis India & South Asia, as President. India is now the second largest English-speaking publishing market in the world and Indian publishing will soon be celebrating 75 years.

Speaking on the occasion, Nitasha Devasar, President – Association of Publishers in India said, “The last year has been about inclusion and building industry collaboration around common causes. There were numerous industry issues which require unified action by the industry and API will continue its efforts to be inclusive both in terms of the focus of its members as well as wider industry issues. To utilize the full potential of this growing market publishers need to rally around common issues with greater frequency and commitment.”

The Executive Committee includes representations from top publishing houses like Scholastic, DK, BMJ, among others. The committee will continue to represent the collective interests of trade, school, academic and higher education publishers and will work with regulatory bodies, industry organizations and global associations to highlight the value proposition of Indian publishing.

In the coming year, the committee will focus its emphasis on curating networking arenas and educational platforms which scale up the learning potential of the industry. It will also drive conversations with educationists and decision-makers to forge strong relationships and trade alliances.

Nitasha Devasar – President
Nitasha Devasar is Managing Director, Taylor & Francis, India and South Asia, since 2013. She has 25 years of experience in academic publishing and her edited Publishers on Publishing: Inside India's Book Business was published in 2018. She is on the Editorial Board of Logos, Journal of the World Publishing Community, published by Brill. Prior to joining Taylor & Francis, she was Academic Publishing Director at Oxford University Press India for 12 years. In a short entrepreneurial stint in 2012–13, Nitasha set up PublishInc., a consultancy servicing the gap between the repositories of research content and publishers. Nitasha is Adviser with the Women Leadership Forum of Asia and was lauded as Channel News Asia's Women of Substance in Asia in 2017.

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About API
The Association of Publishers in India is a trade organization that stands for the promotion and advancement of international publishers in India as well as protects the common interest of members and professionals engaged in global publishing. Engaged in market research and compiling statistics, it runs a number of industry-specific events and seminars. A premiere industry body, it leads the advocacy efforts on behalf of the entire publishing industry.