Janet DeNeefe

Melbourne-born Janet DeNeefe is the visionary Founder and Director of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. 

Simone Schröder

Simone Schröder is the director of the ilb’s evening programme.

Lavinia Frey

Lavinia Frey is the director of the international literaturfestival berlin. She studied history, theatre studies, philosophy, and dance in Zurich, Bern, and London.

Sanjoy K. Roy

Sanjoy K. Roy, an entrepreneur of the arts, is Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, which produces over 30 festivals in 45 cities and 19 countries, including the world’s largest literary gathering — the Jaipur Literature Festival and international editions of JLF.

Anna Soler-Pont

Anna Soler-Pont founded Pontas Literary & Film Agency in 1992, a company dedicated to the international copyright management of writers around the world

Peter Klöss

Peter Klöss was born in 1962 and lives in Cologne (Germany). He has translated mainly novels and non-fiction from Italian and English for over 30 years.

Jérôme Bouchaud

Jérôme Bouchaud is an agent with the Astier-Pécher Literary Agency, based in Paris.

Jamie Bulloch

Jamie Bulloch is the translator of more than fifty books from German, including works by Daniela Krien, Timur Vermes, Robert Menasse, Martin Suter, Arno Geiger, Romy Hausmann and Sebastian Fitzek. 

Sarah Hemens

Sarah Hemens, Project Director, New Books in German, has developed and managed the New Books in German project for the last three and a half years.

Jürgen Jakob Becker

Managing director of Deutscher Übersetzerfonds (DÜF) and deputy head of the  Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB) 

Nico Sandfuchs

Nico Sandfuchs has been working for the Goethe-Institut in various positions

Emeline Berton

After studying literature, Emeline Berton completed her master's degree

Pernille Starck

Pernille Starck studied archeology, history of art and book science