Carlo Scollo Lavizzari
Lawyer qualified in South Africa, England & Wales, and Switzerland, specialising in intellectual property protection with 21+ years’ experience across law firms in Africa, Europe and the US. Fluent in German, English, French and Italian.
Ruth Delannoie
Ruth Delannoie, Managing Director of SMME educational publishing company Mthombothi Studios. Mthombothi Studios is a 100% black owned and 100% woman owned company. The entity’s main focus is the production and publication of children’s books and reading material aimed at establishing and improving literacy levels of young readers. Ruth is presently the PASA SMMEs Sector […]
Kelly Ansara
Kelly Ansara has worked in the publishing industry for nearly 15 years, having worked her way up from behind the counter at a bookshop through various departments in some of South Africa’s biggest publishing houses. Currently, she is the Sales Manager of the Independent Publishers and Local Publishing lists at Jonathan Ball Publishers. She has […]
Gan Krishna
After a long stint in the education profession, Gan joined the publishing world in 2002 starting at Heinemann then moving on to Macmillan SA where he has taken on various management roles during the past 15 years. Currently he heads TVET sales. Gan believes that every child should have equal access to quality education so […]
Rob Laing
Rob is the chairperson of the PASA Sustainability subcommittee. Rob is Managing Director of Cambridge University Press Sub Saharan Africa and has spent over twenty-five years’ within the education sector in Sub Saharan Africa having previously gained experience with both Oxford University Press and Maskew Miller Longman. Rob is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a […]
Orenna Krut
She is a previous chair of both PASA’s Education and TVET Sectors. Orenna is Managing Director of Troupant Publishers, a specialist publishing house which develops post-school education and training materials for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). Orenna has been manager and director at […]
Lucia Ndabula
Lucia joined the Publishing industry in 1993 and worked as a Teacher Trainer, Provincial Schools Sales Manager, Regional Manager and now National Schools Sales Manager at Oxford University Press. She has served on PASA Local Committees across the country and as EDEX representative to many Provinces over the years. Lucia worked as a high school […]
Andrew Joseph
Andrew is the Digital Publisher at Wits University Press, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. His publishing experience has largely been in academic and reference publications – books, journals and digital products – has worked with most major European and US academic publishers, and he is closely involved with standards development and implementation especially for metadata, […]
Mpuka Radinku
Mpuka Radinku has been the Executive Director of PASA from 2013 to date. He previously worked in various publishing companies as publisher, publishing manager, publishing director and general manager from 1994. He represents PASA on various local and international stakeholder bodies including the FP&M Seta Board, Legal Deposit Committee, IPA, APNET and BUSA. Prior to […]
Janine Loedolff
Janine Loedolff is the Publishing Manager of Higher Education at Oxford University Press South Africa. Having completed a Masters degree in English Literature at Stellenbosch University, Janine joined the South African publishing sector in 2008. Her earlier experience in the publishing sector lies within product development and production. More recently, Janine’s focus has shifted to […]