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Meet the Speakers


Taking to the stage


Lauren Ace Litle Tiger Brand director


Lauren is brand director at the Little Tiger Group, where she began her pub- lishing career as public- ity assistant nearly 10


years ago. In the intervening years she worked as senior publicity manager at Macmillan Children’s Books and cam- paigns director at Riot Communications. In 2014, she won the Publishers’ Public- ity Circle award for Children’s Campaign of the Year, and was named a Rising Star by The Bookseller.


@laceypr


Robin Banerjee Universit of Sussex


Professor of of developmental psychology


Robin directs Sussex Uni- versity’s CRESS (Children’s Relationships, Emo- tions, and Social Skills) research lab, which is


Lauren Child Author, illustrator


Lauren is an award- winning, bestselling writer and artist. She is the creator of many


much-loved characters, includ- ing Clarice Bean, Ruby Redfort and Charlie and Lola. (She won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal in 2000 for I Will Not Ever Never Eat a Tomato, the first of her Charlie and Lola picture books.) In 2010, Lauren was awarded an MBE for services to literature. In 2017 she was announced as the 10th Water- stones Children’s Laureate, succeeding Chris Riddell.


@uklaureate www.thebookseller.com


closely affiliated with the institution’s interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Childhood and Youth. Robin is cur- rently working closely with EmpathyLab on its educational strategies to foster empathy in pupils at school, particu- larly through reading and engaging with books and stories.


@cress_research


Darren Chetty UCL Institute of Education Teacher, writer


Darren is a doctoral candi- date and teaching fellow at the UCL Institute of Education. He has taught in London primary schools


for 20 years. His research focuses on philosophy for children, multicultural- ism and racism. Darren is a reviewer for Letterbox Library, a special adviser for #BAMEed and Breakin’ Convention, and co-chair of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain’s Committee on Race & Ethnicity.


@rapclassroom


Anna Bassi The Week Junior Editor


Anna has been creat- ing magazines for young people for more than 20 years. From TV tie-ins to educational titles on


subjects ranging from Roald Dahl to the Royal Ballet, in her current role as editor of The Week Junior, Anna is at the helm of an innovative and award- winning title that has proved not only that kids are interested in current affairs, but that they want to read, write, think and talk about what’s going on in the world.


@mrsb_dda


Catherine Clarke Felicit Bryan Associates Managing director and literary agent


Catherine was publish- ing director of the trade books department at Oxford University Press for several years before


joining Felicity Bryan Associates as an agent in 2001. She represents a range of writers of literary non-fiction, as well as a number of bestselling and prize- winning writers for children and young adults. She became managing director of Felicity Bryan in 2010. In 2017, she won the British Book Awards’ Literary Agent of the Year accolade.


@felicitybryan


Nazneen Ahmed Universit College London Author, research associate


Nazneen is British- Bangladeshi and lives in Southampton. She is a research associate in the Geography department


at University College London. She was selected for the WriteNow scheme for her historical fantasy novel for young adults, The Strange Children of Spittle- fields. She is also writer in residence at Southampton’s public libraries, in asso- ciation with the Arts Council-funded project So:Write. She is represented by Louise Lamont at LBA Books.


@nazneen372


Mainga Bhima Penguin Random House Assistant editor


Mainga is an assistant editor in the fiction team at Penguin Random House Children’s. She works with a range of authors, includ-


ing Nicola Yoon, Jacqueline Wilson and Jennifer Bell, and is commissioning diverse books for children and young readers who are aged between five and 18 years old.


Japhet Asher Carlton Books Digital director


Japhet Asher is digital director at Carlton Pub- lishing. He oversees the creative process for new print/digital formats,


notably with augmented reality. He also creates new brands and develops busi- ness opportunities in print and digital content. To find out more about Japhet’s work at Carlton, read his Point of View piece on page 7.


@thejaphet


@maingabhima


Barry Cunningham Chicken House


Publisher and managing director


After an English degree at Cambridge, Barry joined Penguin Books in 1977. He worked as children’s mar- keting director for Puffin,


and was later promoted to the Penguin board, becoming responsible for the marketing of all Penguin books, until he was headhunted by Random House in 1988. In 1994 he was approached by Bloomsbury to set up its children’s book list, where he signed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. In 2000, Barry founded Chicken House.


@barrychicken 11


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