Philippe Robinet is the Director General of Calmann-Lévy Books, one of the oldest publishing houses in France, as well as the founder and President of Kero Books.
In 2002 he helped create Oh! Books, an organisation that published a number of dissident memoirs, including those of Mukhtar Mai, a Pakistani women’s rights activist, and Sampat Pal Devi, an Indian anti-corruption activist.