Since 2017 the President of Associazione Italiana degli Editori (AIE) – the Italian publishers association – Ricardo Franco Levi is among Italy's foremost voices in that market's recovery from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. He works with top-level government figures as well as the spectrum of publishing-industry professionals, and has helped lead the development of New Books From Italy, a centralized platform developed to promote contemporary titles to the world industry for translation and publication.