Swiss Publishers on the Executive Committee of the IPA

Swiss publisher Werner Stocker has been elected to the Executive Committee of the International Publishers Association IPA. The General Assembly elected him Treasurer of the organization. Stocker is the director and co-owner of Dike Verlag. He was previously President of the Publishers Association of German-speaking and Romansh-speaking Switzerland between 1991 and 2000 and managed the publishing and bookselling company Schulthess Juristische Medien for several years.The International Publishers Association was founded in Paris in 1896. The Geneva-based non-governmental organization has an advisory voice at the United Nations and represents the interests of 78 publishers' associations in 65 countries worldwide. The IPA's main objectives are freedom of expression, copyright protection and the reduction of illiteracy through the promotion of books and teaching materials, reports the SDA.