UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of London.
Andy previously established the first Department of Culture and the Creative Industries in the world at King’s College London. He previously taught at LSE, and UCL, and had held visiting professor positions at many institutions including SMU (Singapore) and ZHdK/ETH, Zurich.
He specializes the analysis of the cultural industries globally. This research has three strands. The first focuses on the social and economic dynamics of clustering and knowledge exchange. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. The third concerns cultural governance and policy making at the national, regional and urban scales. He has worked with UNESCO, UNCTAD, WIPO, the World Bank and many national and city government on these topics.
His current research concerns trans-local cultural production chains and is funded by EU Horizon 2020 https://cicerone-project.eu. He also has been working on questions of creative diversity (https://circelablondon.pubpub.org/the-project) He has previously explored projects on urban creative economy, clustering, knowledge transfer, innovation and creativity. He has worked with UNESCO, UNCTAD, WIPO and many national and city government on these topics. Until 2023 he was Editor-in-Chief of the international interdisciplinary journal City, Culture and Society.
