Speakers

Renate Punka

Renate Punka wears three hats in her daily professional life. She is managing director of Janis Roze Publishers – one of the oldest and most respectable publishing houses, the home of many established and aspiring writers from Latvia and mostly from abroad. Since 2012, Renate has been repeatedly elected as the president of Latvian Publishers Association (LPA); in this role she actively engages in debates about cultural policy of Latvia and lobbies for the interest of the book sector, she is also represantive of LPA to Federation of European Publishers (FEP).