Four expert panellists share their experiences over the last extraordinary year and debate what the future of export might hold - and the role that print can play in ensuring a sustainable agenda. 

This podcast looks at some of the global trends and issues affecting export. Our moderator is Ed Nawotka, who is the Book Seller & International Editor of Publishers Weekly and US Coordinator of Publishers Weekly Espanol, which launched this August.

Ed was the Editor of Publishing Perspectives, which he also founded. Some of his recent work covered the future of publishing and the role of China in US publishing for the Los Angeles Times and the role of Literature in US Diplomatic Relations for the Houston Chronicle, along with Serving Faculty Member of the Yale Publishing Course at the Yale University School of Management. He has lectured at many publishing events from Sao Paulo to Sharjah, to Seoul and many places in between.

Between the five contributors of this podcast, there are more than 115 years of collective experience. So hopefully they will help listeners unravel the biggest challenges facing the export market today.

Joining Ed is Rob Thompson. Rob is currently the International Sales Director for Collins Learning, which is the education and reference division of HarperCollins, based in London. He has been in publishing and bookselling for 25 years and in that time Rob has been a bookseller first and then a publisher across many publishing houses but always in export. His background is export and educational export in particular, with a long history of travelling around the world, visiting schools.

We are also delighted to have Devin Luna contributing to this podcast. Currently, Vice President International Sales and Marketing at Macmillan Trade Publishers. She is in her 20th year in publishing and most of that time has been spent in international markets. She started with working with our HP UK colleagues in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and has since expanded her role and joined McMillan in 2014. 

In addition to the line-up today, we have Denise Bauer. Her title function is Head of Hachette Art and National which is the subsidiary of the Hachette Publishing Group designed for export sales throughout the world. Her background is mainly in press print before joining book prints in magazine publishing and newspapers publishing, before switching six years ago to expo books.

Finally, we have Joaquin who joins from Group of Planeta in Barcelona in Spain. Joaquin has been with the Group since 1994, in charge of all operations between Spain and Latin America. Planeta has more than eight subsidiaries in Latin America – and all the operations and exports between Spain and Latin America. Since 2000, Joaquin has been in the Book's Division, working for different imprints, mainly non-fiction imprints, in the Spanish market. He then became the CEO of the Book Club in Spain - a joint venture with Bertelsmann in Spain, for four years. Joaquin is now the CEO of the non-fiction imprints in the Planeta Group.
 
Jesus Badenes (Grupo Planeta, Spain)
Denis Berriat (Hachette Livre International, France)
Devin Luna (Pan Macmillan USA)
Rob Thompson (Collins Learning UK)
Ed Nawotka (Publishers Weekly)  MODERATOR