NZ education publishing CEO wins seat on US board

David Glover, chief executive of Learning Media Limited, the leading NZ-owned educational services company, has been elected a director of the board of the US-based Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).

He is the first non-American to sit on the board of this prestigious association, which includes senior executives of large international publishers such as McGraw-Hill and Scholastic Inc.

“I was invited to put my name up for election, because AEP wanted an international perspective and because Learning Media is well-known and respected in the US as a quality publisher,” said Mr Glover.

“Many North Americans regard NZ as having the best literacy educators and educational resources in the world. Learning Media has been in the US market for over 10 years and has a strong reputation both for its products and the contract publishing services we provide to companies such as McGraw-Hill. We earned $NZ5 million in overseas revenues in the last financial year.”

The Association of Educational Publishers is a non-profit professional organisation for educational publishers and content developers, supported by nearly 400 print and digital publishers of all sizes and in all media.

AEP facilitates communication among key interest groups such as educators, policy makers, educational foundations and associations, business and the education media.

Mr Glover will attend his first board meeting early this month in Washington DC, at the same time attending AEP’s Content in Context Conference, which will explore what’s working, not working and needed when it comes to using digital resources and technology in the classroom.