Peter Givler is Chair of the Copyright Committee of the International Publishers Association.  He is also President of the International Federation of Scholarly Publishers and Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Book Industry Study Group, the Editorial Board of Publishing Research Quarterly, and several Advisory Boards.  He has given numerous talks on publishing in the , , and Europe , and was a member of the Library of Congress’s Section 108 Study Group.  His articles about publishing have appeared in, among others, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Scholarly Publishing, and Academe.