Dania Shawwa Abuali is a publisher and runs Haven Books in Hong Kong. She started her career in book publishing in New York City, where she edited museum publications for the Pierpont Morgan Library and pop-culture books for Universe, an imprint of Rizzoli Publishing. She came to Hong Kong during the handover in 1997 and then worked as an equity-research editor for major investment banks, primarily Credit Suisse. She was the managing editor of Imprint, an annual anthology of women's writing, and served as president of the Women in Publishing Society. After forming Haven Books, Dania helped establish the Independent Publishers of Hong Kong. She holds a bachelor of commerce degree from the University of Toronto and a master's degree in English literature from Northwestern University, Chicago.