September 9 2025
NMPA Announces New Board Chair Ralph Peer II
Golnar Khosrowshahi Elected Vice Chair
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) today announced that peermusic Executive Chair Ralph Peer II has been elected Chair of its Board of Directors. Golnar Khosrowshahi, Founder and CEO of Reservoir, has been elected Vice Chair. The election followed the retirement of former Board Chairman Irwin Z. Robinson.
Mr. Peer has served on the NMPA Board for 54 years during which he has been a strategic and valued voice. As an executive, he has charted a singular career to become one of the most accomplished and respected figures in music publishing history. Under his leadership, peermusic has developed a global network of music publishing companies operating from 39 offices in 32 countries. With well over a million titles owned or administered, he directs the largest privately owned music publishing company of its kind in the world.
He is a life-long advocate for the protection and crediting of copyright and lyric rights and has been involved in every issue facing the music publishing industry over the past half-century, delivering a consistent message of upholding the rights of creators to boards, committees, and governments throughout the world.
Ralph Peer II was the first music publisher to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) and also the Music Publishers Association (MPA). He was the inaugural recipient of the ICMP Award for outstanding contribution to global music publishing; a previous recipient of the Music Publishers Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame; and was previously honored as “Music Maker of the Year” at MIDEM. In 2018, Peer received France’s top cultural honor “Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” recognizing his outstanding contributions to the arts in France and around the world.
Now serving as Vice Chair, Golnar Khosrowshahi’s perspective and innovative mindset have been an asset to the NMPA Board for over a decade. As Founder and CEO of Reservoir, she has built an award-winning independent music company headquartered in New York City with operations in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, Abu Dhabi, and Mumbai.
Established in 2007, Reservoir is the first female-founded and led publicly traded independent music company in the U.S. Golnar is consistently named a Billboard Power Player, and in 2022, she was recognized as Billboard’s Women in Music Executive of the Year and subsequently joined the Hall of Fame. She was honored as Music Week’s International Woman of the Year in 2023 and was named to Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business, Forbes’ 50 Over 50, Inc.’s Female Founders 250, and Variety’s New Power of New York and Power of Women lists. Reservoir has twice been awarded both Publisher of the Year at Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R Awards and Independent Publisher of the Year at the Music Week Awards.
Khosrowshahi also sits on the NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Board of Directors and served as Board Chair of Yo-Yo Ma’s musical collective, Silkroad. In 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the New York Philharmonic.
