Aditi Maheshwari-Goyal is the CEO of the sixty years young Vani Prakashan Group that represents the legacy literary list of Vani Prakashan, Bharatiya Jnanpith and Yatra Books. She is also the Managing Trustee at Vani Foundation, the not-for-profit arm of the group. Vani Foundation established the Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award at the Jaipur BookMark, Jaipur Literature Festival. The award is in its eighth year now and honors the translators who work towards bridging the gaps between Indian languages.
Aditi drafted the syllabi of the course in Publishing and Editing at the University of Delhi’s Cluster Innovation Center and taught it for three years. She teaches the same course at the Seagull School of Publishing, Kolkata.
Aditi is one of the founding members of the Jaipur BookMark, South Asia’s largest B2B publishing platform at Jaipur Literature Festival and has worked towards promotion of the Indian languages with several domestic and international forum. She is has publiahed over 500 books in a span of 12 years at the Vani Prakashan Group and has taken care of the entire block chain of book ecosystem.
A post-graduate in English literature from Hansraj College, University of Delhi, she holds M.Phil. degree in Social Sciences from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, MSc. in Business Management from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She also holds a diploma in Public Relations and Advertising. She is pursuing a diploma in Artificial Intelligence right now from Indian Institute of Technology.
Recently, Aditi has been featured in the internationally acclaimed business magazine, Business World among India’s ‘Most Valuable CEOs’. She has also been a guest editor for Rajasthan Patrika’s national edition. Her interviews have been published at the India today, Financial Express, Mid-Day etc. She has written extensively for the Scroll and the Book Review.
In July 2023, Aditi was conferred with the National Achiever’s Award for Literary Entrepreneurship by the Zee Media.
