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| Veerle De Laet | |
Veerle De Laet has joined the American University in Cairo Press as executive director. She was formerly at Leuven University Press, where she was managing director and publisher since 2016 and earlier acquisitions editor.
From 2005 to 2009, De Laet was affiliated with the University of Antwerp as a Ph.D. assistant of the Foundation for Scientific Research in Flanders, and from 2010 as a postdoctoral researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the School of History, Culture, and Communication. She was a visiting Fellow at the University of Bordeaux, in the Art History Department, and participated in a research project on the history of glassmaking with the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, in the Department of Restoration and Conservation Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in cultural history from the University of Antwerp.
De Laet commented: "Joining AUC Press as the new executive director is a new and exciting step in my academic publishing career. I will build on my expertise and know-how of the academic publishing ecosystem to navigate the complexities and challenges of the constantly evolving publishing landscape and developments in scholarly communication... I am eager to work closely with AUC Press's staff to expand our publishing collection, add new thematic fields of research, launch new book series, foster publishing partnerships, explore new formats and publishing programs, and advance AUC Press's global reach in terms of marketing, distribution and sales."