Technical director of Times of India publisher Bennett, Coleman & Co Sanat Hazra is one of six publisher representatives elected to WAN-Ifra's World Printers Forum Board for the 2017-2019 second term.

Every employee of every WAN-Ifra member company was entitled to vote in the election which took place during December, and 647 votes were cast.

Among representative from supplier companies are ppi Media's Jan Kasten, QI Press Controls chairman Menno Jansen, and manroland web board member Dieter Betzmeier.

The full list of representatives elected is:

Publishing or printing companies: Andreas Gierth (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany); Sanat Hazra (Bennett, Coleman & Co, Mumbai, India); Josef Konrad Schießl (Süddeutscher Verlag Zeitungsdruck, Munich, Germany); Peder Schumacher (V-TAB, Gothenburg, Sweden); Mujo Selimovic (Oslobodjenje newspaper, Bosnia and Herzegovina); and Rick Stunt(DMG-Media, London, UK).

Supplier companies: Anu Ahola (UPM Paper ENA); Dieter Betzmeier (manroland web systems, Augsburg, Germany); Michael Hirthammer (DIC and Sun Chemical, Eurolab Karlstein, Germany); Menno Jansen (Q.I. Press Controls, EAE, Oosterhout, Netherlands); Herbert Kaiser (KBA-Digital & Web Solutions, Würzburg, Germany); and Jan Kasten (ppi Media, Hamburg, Germany).