Our story and our team

About us
A team brought together by a love of reading

Reading helps us live.

Love for Livres is an innovation studio co-founded by Céline Mas and Omar Peraza Delgado.

We bring together literature, cognitive science, technology and impact assessment to make reading an inclusive, useful and lively experience.

Céline Mas and Omar Peraza Delgado, co-founders of Love for Livres

Our story

Reading frees and connects.
It is our passion, our work and our commitment.

We owe so much to reading! From our earliest years, it has been decisive in our lives. It has allowed us to fulfil ourselves, and we now want to share all its benefits with others.

In days full of demands, it is not always easy to find time to read, or the book that will make you want to start. We want to create opportunities to meet books, including for people who feel far from them.

Because today, reading is under threat: bookshops are struggling, some publishers are disappearing, libraries are trying to grow their audiences. Other media are taking the place of books. Attention is fractured, reshaped by AI and technology. Many readers no longer find their way.

To reverse the trend, we have brought together skills in literature, cognitive science, technology and impact assessment. Through our workshops, our training and our libraries, we want to give everyone more room to think, imagine and share.

Making people want to read opens up possibilities for everyone: reading supports learning and creativity, and it counters social determinism. It also means defending a society where we can slow down, take care of ourselves, understand other points of view and debate freely.

“Books saved my life. Or made it a greater adventure. They opened windows and doors for me. They let me discover the vast universe when I had few means of going out to meet it.”

Céline Mas, La lecture pour réussir sa vie professionnelle (Dunod, 2025)

Jeanette Winterson, *Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?*

What guides us

Four values that drive us every day.

Generosity

Committing ourselves fully so that your projects succeed.

Passion, or nothing

Passing on a taste for books and the pleasure of discovering them, sincerely, and involving you at every step.

Imagination

Inventing new ways to meet books, daring to leave the beaten track.

Methodological and scientific rigour

We combine our sensitivity and literary passion with professional standards and the contributions of cognitive science, for ever greater impact.

In a few figures

15 000

people trained since 2016

projects

countries

+ 500

bibliotherapy workshops

Qualiopi, process certified for the category training actions

Love for Livres is a Qualiopi-certified training organisation (France) for training actions.

Our team

A small team,
a wide network.

Céline Mas

Co-founder

An author, Céline Mas brings literature, cognitive science and social impact into dialogue. Trained in coaching and in the neurocognitive and behavioural approach, she develops with Love for Livres ways of making reading accessible and useful for people and organisations alike.

Author of novels, plays and professional books, including La lecture pour réussir sa vie professionnelle published by Dunod, she passes on this approach through training, workshops and talks. Her commitment to emancipation also runs through her path as former president of UN Women France and as a woman engaged in international human rights organisations.

At the origin of Love for Livres is a personal experience combined with her professional experience, which became a life mission: making reading accessible. Because books can open up possibilities we never imagined and improve lives, especially those of the most vulnerable.

Céline graduated from Sciences Po, CELSA-Sorbonne and ESSEC.

Céline Mas on LinkedIn ↗

Omar Peraza Delgado

Co-founder and president

A philosopher of language by training, who studied in the United States and Spain, Omar Peraza Delgado explores the links between language, emotions and technology. At Love for Livres, he leads the research around the KEI©, our impact-assessment method applied to emotions.

His work rests on a concrete question: how does a text act on those who read it, and how can this experience be described to make it easier to discover new books?

With Céline Mas, he co-founded Love for Livres to share more widely what reading has given them: perspectives, encounters and the chance to imagine themselves differently.

Olivia Ozzo

Head of operations

Olivia coordinates all of Love for Livres' projects and processes day to day.

Laura Roman

Project and communications officer

Laura works on Love for Livres' day-to-day projects and leads communications.

The network

Practitioners

Our network brings together some thirty hand-picked practitioners who run training, reading workshops and bibliotherapy sessions. Their experience of support, care, education or books enriches their encounters with audiences.

The advisory council