Manasi Subramaniam is a publishing leader and cultural strategist working across literature, international rights and cultural policy. Until 2025, she was Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President at Penguin Random House India, where she led the literary publishing programme and built a globally influential catalogue of writers from South Asia. Over the course of her tenure, books she published won the Booker Prize, International Booker Prize, Women’s Prize, Pulitzer Prize and JCB Prize, among others. Her editorial work is known for combining literary ambition with political acuity, particularly in contexts shaped by censorship, dissent and democratic pressure. Her work now sits at the intersection of publishing, cultural diplomacy and international advocacy, with a focus on translation, cross-border literary infrastructure and freedom of expression. She is a Yale World Fellow, a Stanford Fisher Family Summer Fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.