London, Wednesday 21 February 2024. The London Guide Truthful (LBF) has in the present day introduced that YoungSuk (YS) Chi, Chairman of Elsevier and Chairman of the Affiliation of American Publishers (AAP), is the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2024.
YoungSuk (YS) Chi
A world businessman and a worldwide thought chief within the publishing, training, and knowledge options industries, YS Chi is a unanimously well-respected determine within the ebook world. As Chairman of Elsevier, he works immediately with key stakeholders in authorities, academia, and trade to assist over 30 million scientists, college students and well being data professionals. In his position as Director of Company Affairs for RELX, Elsevier’s guardian firm, he’s answerable for authorities affairs, company communications, and company duty throughout all 4 of the group’s market segments.
Based mostly in London and Washington D.C., Chi travels extensively to interact with scientific analysis communities, ship thought management on key tendencies and advise stakeholders, boards, and teams throughout industries. He’s presently Chairman of the Affiliation of American Publishers and has served as President of the Worldwide Publishers Affiliation. He’s additionally actively concerned in quite a few academic, inventive, and charitable organizations, together with Princeton College, the Korea-US Science Middle KUSCO, and the Ban Ki-Moon Basis.
YoungSuk (YS) Chi commented: “I’m humbled, each by those that nominated me and by the panel that chosen me for this super honor. Having entered the ebook trade unknowingly almost thirty years in the past, I’ve been extremely lucky to study a lot from my friends who’ve embraced each custom and innovation. It has really been a privilege to be enriched by their objective, dedication, {and professional} experience. Being part of this trade’s improvement has been a exceptional expertise, and I’m sure that publishing will proceed to thrive with each expertise and fervour.”
Gareth Rapley, Director of The London Guide Truthful, stated: “We’re delighted to be recognising the spectacular profession of YS with the Lifetime Achievement Award. From his exceptional work ethic to his spectacular stamina throughout so many fields, particularly his contributions to copyright, his concentrate on sustainability and his dedication to the trade, YS is an instance of probably the most inspiring people working in publishing proper now. We’re fortunate to have him as a speaker on the Foremost Stage on Day 1, and we’re wanting ahead to paying him a worthy tribute on the Truthful, celebrating this extremely well-deserved honour.”
David Roche, Non-Government Chair of The London Guide Truthful Advisory Board and Chair of the Judging Panel for the Lifetime Achievement Award, stated: “Chairing the impartial judging panel for the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award is at all times a privilege and a pleasure. This yr’s high-quality shortlist was stuffed with worthy candidates however one submission stood out above the others. YS Chi is the embodiment of every thing that this award seems to recognise. He’s a real internationalist, creating networks and connecting folks throughout continents. He has each a willpower to affect main world figures and a ardour to mentor these initially of their careers, to create a greater future. He sits on many disparate boards and that is testomony to the variety of his expertise and pursuits and the way extremely he’s valued. He has loved a lot company success and his efforts are at all times to affect the trade that we work in to be higher for its authors, staff, and beneficiaries in a sustainable approach. The LBF Lifetime Achievement award 2024 couldn’t have a extra laudable winner.”
Kumsal Bayazit, CEO of Elsevier, stated: “Everybody at Elsevier is immensely proud that our Chairman, YS Chi, has been honoured with the celebrated Lifetime Achievement Award by the London Guide Truthful. This recognition not solely celebrates his exceptional contributions to the publishing trade but additionally underscores his unwavering dedication to advancing information and fostering innovation. This award is a testomony to his distinctive profession and enduring legacy, and we lengthen our heartfelt congratulations on this well-deserved honour.”
Maria A. Pallante, President and CEO of the Affiliation of American Publishers, stated: “I first met YS about 12 years in the past, throughout my tenure as Director of the U.S. Copyright Workplace. From my expertise working with YS all these years in the past, I can say that he was an necessary advocate and spokesperson for the worldwide publishing neighborhood then, and that he has by no means slowed down. YS personifies the qualities that propel the fashionable publishing trade: a dedication to analysis, studying, and progress; enthusiastic funding in know-how; respect for each the personal and public sectors; collaboration throughout disciplines and cultures; and a piece ethic that comes with indefatigable service to colleagues and trade boards, together with the AAP the place he’s presently serving his second time period as Chair. My heart-felt congratulations to YS on this extremely well-deserved accolade.”
Brian Murray, CEO of HarperCollins, stated: “The worldwide publishing trade in 2024 is as profitable in the present day and as well-positioned for the following 25 years as another trade in no small half resulting from YS Chi’s skilled and private management, mentorship and chairmanships over three many years in almost all publishing sectors, nations and continents. During the last three many years, I’ve been so lucky to be a fellow traveller who witnessed YS work his mind, curiosity and acumen for the betterment of our shared pursuits in his position at each the AAP and the IPA as world and technological forces swept throughout the trade. I do know I’m not alone in recognizing his distinctive and outsized impression on the trade and all of us who’ve been capable of work with him over his three many years. I can’t consider anybody extra deserving of this recognition from the London Guide Truthful – Congratulations and Thanks, YS!”
John Ingram, Chairman of Ingram Content material Group, stated: “Few folks know YoungSuk (YS) Chi higher than I do. We met in our sophomore yr at Princeton College again within the Fall of 1980. We now have been finest mates and enterprise colleagues for over 40 years. YS is really a citizen of the world – a global businessman and world thought chief in publishing. He’s a person of fantastic power and stamina. But YS is a lot extra. He has an enormous coronary heart and capability to serve, not simply the for-profit world (together with serving on the Ingram Industries Board of Administrators, guardian firm of Ingram Guide) but additionally the not-for-profit world. The publishing world has certainly been lucky to have somebody of YS’s skills, ardour, and power play so many necessary roles throughout the trade over the previous virtually 30 years. He’s so deserving to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award.”
Christie Henry, Director of Princeton College Press, sassist: “For greater than three many years in scholarly publishing, I’ve hoped for a approach to visually map the ability and impression of mentoring in our neighborhood. In doing so, I’ve each confidence that on the epicentre of the publishing ecosystem could be YS Chi. His achievements within the enterprise of publishing are famend, however it’s his profound dedication to inspiring and mentoring publishers that has led to lifetimes of achievements for thus many, myself included. The expanse of his impression and engagement I consider to be unparalleled in publishing, simply as his versatility as a publishing chief, most demonstrable in his capability to scale. YS as a worldwide ambassador for our freedoms to publish has stored publishing doorways, and homes, open and vibrant. However whereas he operates at this scale routinely, he additionally will attend a Board assembly with each consideration and preparedness, and guarantee a generative and energizing expertise for all. His focus mixed together with his indefatigable ardour for our objective is an inspiration.”
The Lifetime Achievement Award committee, composed of the impartial LBF Advisory Board, chosen YS Chi from a shortlist of main worldwide figures within the ebook trade. The Award recognises a person who has made a really vital mark within the sphere of the worldwide ebook world. It’s open to publishers, brokers, editors, scouts, booksellers and anybody else concerned within the worldwide ebook trade from any nation on the earth.
YS Chi shall be talking on the Foremost Stage of The London Guide Truthful on Tuesday 12 March at 11.15 – 12.00, on the panel known as ‘Exploring the Ever-Evolving World of Publishing: World Developments, Challenges, and Alternatives’, alongside Karine Gonçalves Pansa, President of the Worldwide Publishers Affiliation (IPA); Ricardo Franco Levi, President of The Federation of European Publishers (FEP); Lawrence Njagi, President of the African Publishers Community (APNET), and Edward Nawotka, Senior Worldwide Bookselling Editor at Publishers Weekly. Extra data right here. YS Chi shall be introduced together with his award at a non-public reception throughout The London Guide Truthful.
PREVIOUS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS:
2023 – Klaus Flugge, Andersen Press, Germany
2022 – Hiroshi Hayakawa, Hayakawa Publishing, Japan
2021 – Margaret Busby, Allison & Busby, UK
2020 – Nigel Newton, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK
2019 – Dorotea Bromberg, Brombergs Bokförlag, Sweden
2018 – Sara Miller McCune, Sage Publishing, US
2017 – Luiz Schwarcz, Companhia das Letras, Brazil
2016 – Gail, Baroness Rebuck DBE, Penguin Random Home, UK
2015 – Peter Usborne, Usborne, UK
2014 – Deborah Rogers, Rogers, Coleridge & White, UK
2013 – Michael Krüger, Hanser Verlag, Germany
2012 – Jorge Herralde, Editions Anagrama, Spain
2011 – Sonny Mehta, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., US
2010 – Antoine Gallimard, Éditions Gallimard, France
2009 – Drenka Willen, Harcourt, USA
2008 – Peter Mayer, Overlook Press and Duckworth, UK & USA
2007 – Lord Weidenfeld, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, UK
2006 – Christopher MacLehose, MacLehose Press, UK
2005 – Lynette Owen, Pearson Training, UK
2004 – John Lyons, Little, Brown, UK & USA
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