Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Giorgio Fazio is an applied economist with expertise in macroeconomics, trade and investment. He has published several articles in international peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books on issues such as exchange rates determination, crises and contagion, growth, and convergence at the national and regional levels, productivity, innovation, trade and FDI, civic and cultural capital, creative industries economics.
He has been a Creative PEC researcher since 2018, leading the work on international trade, investment and migration and contributing to economic research in the creative industries in PEC Discussion papers, blogs and peer reviewed journal articles.
Giorgio is Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School and since 2023 is the Research Director of the Creative Industries Policy Evidence Centre.
Core Team
Giorgio Fazio
Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business Schoo…
Alice Kent
Head of Communications (job-share)
Makena Guantai Day
Executive Assistant
Duncan Todd
Finance and Administration Manager
Bernard Hay
Head of Policy
Simon Budgen
Head of Operations
Tom Cahill-Jones
Research Network Manager
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Anna Zabow
Head of Communications (job-share)
Nik Gunn
Policy Adviser
Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel
Research Associate (policy)
Emily Hopkins
Policy Advisor
Nataliya Nikolova
UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)
Hasan Bakhshi MBE
Director
Iqra Choudhry
Policy Engagement Manager at the Creative PEC
Elisa Mullen
Communications & Events Officer at the Creative PEC
Daniel Simandjuntak
Research Associate for the Creative PEC
Sarah Najm
NUAcT Fellow in Economics of Creative Industries
