Carlos Anaya

Editor with over 50 years of experience in the field. Chancellor of the University of Book Sciences and Arts (UNICAL). Advocate for compensatory remuneration for authors for private copying. He has proposed the creation of a book institute to unify the various sectors of the book world. He was President of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (CANIEM) and received the Guild Merit Medal in 2013. He is currently the Vice President of the Coalition for Legal Access to Culture, an organization that brings together groups representing and defending the rights of authors in Mexico.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel: The Importance of Collective Action in Defending Copyrights

Arturo Ahmed Romero

Arturo Ahmed Romero has a degree in Business Administration from UNAM. He has a Master's degree in Corporate Administration from Universidad Panamericana and a Master's degree in Business Management for Experienced Executives from IPADE, the Pan-American Institute for Senior Business Management.
Professor and founder of the Institute for Professional Development for Booksellers (Indeli), of which he is president of the board of directors. Founder of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, the first in Latin America.
He has also served for more than 18 years as an advisor to the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (Caniem), on various committees. He has been a guest professor at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad de Xalapa, Universidad Panamericana (Campus Guadalajara), UAM-Xochimilco. He has been a professor of different specialization courses at Caniem-Editamos. He is the academic coordinator of the Ramón López Velarde Chair (Indeli), and of the training program for employees, managers and bookstore directors. He has been the executive president of the Congress of Mexican Booksellers (Colime) for 23 years.
He is a founding partner of Editora y Distribuidora Fausto, a company founded in June 1987.
He is a founding member of the Center for Innovation and Professional Development for the Publishing Industry, Editamos, of Caniem, and its first general director. During his tenure, he was in charge of defining and conceptualizing the company, its constitution and legal personality, defining and developing the training program for editors, and monitoring projected results.
He has worked in various executive and management positions in the publishing and bookselling industry for 50 years. On February 17, 2020, he was appointed Vice-Rector of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, an institution founded in 2011 by academics and professionals related to the publishing and bookselling sector.