Our Board

With dynamic representation across all sectors of the industry, the AAP Board of Directors works together to advance the mission of the organization and helps ensure a vibrant future for American publishers.

Chair
Youngsuk ‘YS’ Chi Chairman, Elsevier, Director, Corporate Affairs, RELX Group *IPA Executive Committee Representative

Vice Chair
Brian Murray President and CEO, HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Inc.

Immediate Past Chair
Julia Reidhead Chairman and President of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Treasurer
Jeremy North Managing Director, Books, Taylor & Francis Group

President and CEO
Maria A. Pallante Association of American Publishers

DIRECTORS

Tonya Agurto Senior Vice President, Publisher, Disney Publishing Group

Tom ap Simon President, Higher Education and Virtual Learning, Pearson

Ellie Berger Executive Vice President and President, Trade Publishing, Scholastic

Corinne Burton President, Teacher Created Materials, Inc.

Christie Henry Director, Princeton University Press

Jonathan Karp President and CEO, Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Nhaim Khoury Executive Vice President and General Manager, Cengage Academic

Garrett P. Kiely Director, University of Chicago Press

Matthew Kissner Interim President & CEO, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Tyrrell Mahoney President, Chronicle Books

Nihar Malaviya Chief Executive Officer, Penguin Random House

James Milne, Ph.D. President, ACS Publications

Vikram Savkar EVP & General Manager, Compliance Solutions, Wolters Kluwer

David Shelley CEO, Hachette Book Group

Jasper Simons Chief Publishing Officer, American Psychological Association

Blaise R. Simqu CEO, SAGE Publications

David Stafford General Counsel and Secretary, McGraw Hill Education

Adrienne Vaughan (in memoriam) President, Bloomsbury US

Jon Yaged CEO, Macmillan Publishers US