Jessica Sänger

Dr Jessica Sänger is Director for European and international Affairs at Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German publishers and booksellers association). In this role, she is responsible for representing the interests of the book sector at EU and United Nations institutions and for relations with the association’s umbrella organisations. She is currently Chair of the Freedom to Publish Committee of the International Publishers Association (IPA). From 2019 to 2024, she was Chair of the Copyright Committee of the IPA. Ms Sänger joined Börsenverein in 2008, where she was Deputy Head of the Legal Department from 2011. She studied law in Exeter and Mainz and trained for the bar in Mainz, from where she also received her Doctorate in law. Previous roles include a period as trainee case handler at the European Commission’s DG COMP (Media Unit) and management of an LL.M programme in Media Law. Ms. Sänger has been a visiting lecturer at Louisville and Bristol law schools for copyright, free speech, constitutional law, and law of broadcasting and the press.