President & Board

Executive Committee

Honorary members

  • Carlo Perrone

    Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A

    Honorary President

    Carlo Perrone is an Italian Publisher born in 1956.  Until 2014 he owned 100% of leading daily newspaper of Genova and Liguria, Il Secolo XIX, one of Italy’s larger regional dailies.

    Since 2015 Il Secolo XIX has merged with La Stampa of Torino, creating a new, much larger and stronger multimedia group with a dominant position in North West of Italy: Italiana Editrice SpA. 

    Carlo Perrone has been the President of ENPA from 2016 to 2020 and was elected Honorary President since 2024. He is Board member of GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.A and a member of the Chairman’s Committee of the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers (FIEG).

    Mr Carlo Perrone is now Vice-President of Italiana Editrice (President is John Elkann, Chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobile).

    He was board member of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). Also, Executive Board member of Ansa (Italian national news agency).

    Mr. Perrone is a member of the International Advisory Board of Sotheby’s.

  • Valdo Lehari Jr.

    Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger e.V

    Honorary President

    Valdo Lehari Jr. is CEO and Publisher of Reutlinger General-Anzeiger Verlag in Germany. He has been a member of the Executive Board of Directors of Reutlinger General-Anzeiger since 1985. Previously, he was the  Assistant of the Managing Director at the newspaper General-Anzeiger Bonn. He has also been Managing Director and CEO of “Radio RT 4” since its foundation in 1986.

    Vice-President since November 2010 – after serving as its President for two terms, the maximum term allowed under the organisation´s statutes, he was elected Honorary President of ENPA this May 2026. Since 2001, he has been Chairman of the Executive Board and President of the Association of Newspaper Publishers of Southwest Germany, “Verband Südwestdeutscher Zeitungsverleger e.V. (VSZV),” Stuttgart.

    He has been a member of the Supervisory Board of dpa, Hamburg since June 2005. He has also been a Member of the Board "Bundesverband Deutscher Zeitungsverleger e.V. (BDZV)," Berlin since 2001. In December 2010, he was appointed honorary senator of the University of Tübingen. In addition, he has been active for many years in various committees at the regional, federal and federal state level for more than 20 years.