Riky Stock, born in Northern Germany, studied Creative Industries in Passau and began her career at a Literary Scouting Agency in New York and in the Foreign Rights Department of HarperCollins Publishers. She ran the German Book Office/Frankfurt Book Fair New York for more than 18 years, then worked for two years as Managing Director at picture book publisher NorthSouth Books before returning to Frankfurter Buchmesse this spring. In her current role, she is responsible for Business Development U.S.