Nawin Gupta becomes secretary general of the ASA

Nawin Gupta has been appointed secretary general of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries. He will be based in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Gupta has been involved in advancing publishing programmes of large professional societies (American Medical Association and American Bar Association), major academic presses (University of Chicago and University of Iowa), and commercial publishers (Reed Elsevier). He is described as passionate about the role that scholarly publishers, subscription agents, intermediaries, and libraries play in disseminating scholarship and promoting scholarly discourse, and is deeply aware of the challenges facing them.

In addition to his ASA work, he will continue as principal at Informed Publishing Solutions, a publishing consulting practice based in Chicago.

Nawin takes over from Sarah Durrant who recently became the CEO of Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.