People
Find out more about the people and networks
behind Creative PEC.
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Creative PEC Networks
Core Team
Meet our Core Team who are based between Newcastle University and RSA House, London.
Iqra Choudhry
Policy Engagement Manager at the Creative PEC
Hasan Bakhshi MBE
Director
Nataliya Nikolova
UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)
Emily Hopkins
Policy Advisor
Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel
Research Associate (policy)
Nik Gunn
Policy Adviser
Anna Zabow
Head of Communications (job-share)
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Tom Cahill-Jones
Research Network Manager
Simon Budgen
Head of Operations
Billy Beckett
Communications Manager
Lilli Geissendorfer
Deputy Director
Bernard Hay
Head of Policy
Duncan Todd
Finance and Administration Manager
Makena Guantai Day
Executive Assistant
Alice Kent
Head of Communications (job-share)
Giorgio Fazio
Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Consortium Partners
Meet our Research Consortium Partners. They are based at Sussex University, Sheffield University, Work Advance, as well as our own institution, Newcastle University. Each research team leads on one of four themes within our State of the Nations series.
Sawan Rathi
Research Fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Mark Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
Siobhan McAndrew
Senior Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
Jonathan Jones
Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School
Dave O’Brien
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester
Sara Maioli
Senior Lecturer in Economics and Director of Post-Graduate Research at Newcastle University Business School
Heather Carey
Director of Work Advance
Jonathan Sapsed
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School
Lesley Giles
Director of Work Advance
Josh Siepel
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Research Fellows Network
Meet our Research Fellows Network. They are leading experts from diverse backgrounds, areas of specialism and parts of the globe. They facilitate knowledge exchange at Creative PEC through seminars, blogs and discussion papers and smaller thematic research networks.
Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage
Simona Iammarino
Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;
Marlen Komorowski
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University
David Throsby
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University
Raquel Ortega-Argiles
Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School
Hye-Kyung Lee
Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London
Jian Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pier Luigi Sacco
Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Dwinita Larasati
Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…
Roberta Comunian
Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King’s College London Roberta Comunian is Professor of Creative Economies at the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Indust…
Anthony Fung
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong…
Avril Joffe
UNESCO Chair, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and a Research Associate (and former Head of Department) for Cultural Policy and Management at the School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand A…
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) at the University Anne Green previously worked at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development…
Heidi Ashton
Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick Heidi is a culture and creative ecology scholar at the Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick…
Cynthia Carter
Dr, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Dr Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children…
Rowena Crawford
Manager, Frontier Economics Rowena is an experienced professional economist, passionate about using economics to provide high quality evidence and design effective public policies. She is currently a …
Jun Du
Professor of Economics at Aston Business School Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business School. She is an applied economist with expertise on internationalization, innovation and productivi…
Olivia Gable
Independent Researcher Dr Olivia Gable has a research background in creative industries, cultural policy, popular music, and insecure and precarious work. She currently leads research at Paul Hamlyn F…
Geoffrey Crossick
Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Andy Pratt
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 w…
Harman Sagger
Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS
Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting Paul Is Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting, an international consultancy practice for culture and the creative economy. Paul has over thirty years̵…
Trilce Navarrete
Assistant Professor, the Erasmus University, Rotterdam Dr. Trilce Navarrete is a specialist in the economic and historical aspects of digital heritage, with special interest in digital cultural partic…
Karol J. Borowiecki
Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark Professor Karol J. Borowiecki is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the economic history of the arts. H…
Paul Moore
Professor/Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999. He was head of the School of Creative Arts …
Stuart Cunningham
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Professor, University of Canbe…
Douglas Noonan
Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Elisabetta Lazzaro
Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts
Patrycja Kaszynska
Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London Dr Kaszynska is Senior Research Fellow at University of the Arts London & Research Affiliate at Northeastern University London. She has a trac…
Graeme Evans
Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London
Mark Spilsbury
Research economist Mark has been working on a variety of projects relating to the creative industries, including defining the Creative Industries on behalf of the DCMS, Creative Skillset, Creative and…
Ricky Lawton
Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos Dr. Ricky Lawton is a Cultural Economist and Director of Economic Evaluation at Ipsos. Ricky specialises in economic valuation of intan…
Terry Flew
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow at the Unive…
Jen Snowball
Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa In addition to her role at Rhodes, Jen is a researcher at the South African Cultural Observatory (SA…
Jason Potts
Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Jason Potts’ work is broadly centred on the study of the creation and use of new knowledge (i.e. technological change) and its institutional…
Tom Fleming
Director, TFCC Dr Tom Fleming is a global authority on cultural policy and the creative industries. His work focuses on advising governments, municipalities and institutions across the world to develo…
Valentina Montalto
Associate researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Researcher and consultant in policy and data analysis for the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), holding a PhD in geography from the Uni…
Joanna Woronkowicz
Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Cultural economist who conducts research on artist labo…
Michael Rushton
Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Michael Rushton has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and teaches and writes in the fi…
Leandro Valiati
Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cultures – AHCP/Institute of Cultural Practices University of Manchester Researcher, lecturer and …
Tom Campbell
Consultant and BOP Associate Tom Campbell is a consultant and BOP Associate. Until recently he was Head of Creative Industries at the Knowledge Transfer Network, the business engagement agency of Inno…
Trine Bille
Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine received her PhD degree from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996. She is an econ…
Kristofer Erickson
Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE)
Salvatore Di Novo
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York
Frank Lyons
Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Stuart Allan
Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Monica Masucci
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex
Roberto Camerani
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Bartolomeo Meletti
Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Jenny Kidd
Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Neil Lee
Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport
Max Nathan
Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research
Candace Jones
Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (University of Glasgow)
Industry Champions
Meet our Industry Champions. They are a UK-wide network of practitioners, drawn from all parts of the creative industries to provide Creative PEC with on-the-ground insight to inform our research and policy work.
Tom Philipson
Founder of YourStudio and Special Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL
Nia Williams
Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales
Claire Whitaker
Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025
Sharon Watson
CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Annie Warburton
CEO at the Goldsmiths' Company
Maria Tanjala
Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain
Tolu Stedford
Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions
Amy Smith
Head of Talent at Framestore
Jaswinder Singh
Director of Asian Arts Agency
Will Saunders
Consultant and Executive Producer
Lara Ratnaraja
Cultural Consultant
Laura Pye
Director at National Museums Liverpool
Dave Moutrey
Director of Culture and Creative Industries at Manchester City Council
Jo Morrison
Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium
Amanda Maxwell
Community Manager and board member of shesaid.so
Vikas Kumar
Founder and Director of GemArts
Jennifer Johnston
Head of Learning at Into Film
Tom Adeyoola
Entrepreneur
Sade Banks
Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons
Mandy Barker
Founder of Sail Creative
Lucy Bayliss
Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast
Charlotte Beevor
Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist
Stephen Bennett
Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist
Tom Chalmers
Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company
Global Creative Economy Council
The Global Creative Economy Council (GCEC) grew out of the PEC International Council that was working in the first stage of Creative PEC, from 2018-2023. Learn more about the work of the International Council.
The GCEC brings together academics, practitioners, policy professionals and investors from five continents to identify and discuss emerging trends of global significance in creative economy practice and policy. In particular, it aims to provide inclusive perspectives on global policy issues that span both Global South and Global North, and consider ideas for transnational policies and standards. Supported by PEC Creative and the British Council, it contributes to the work of both organisations by providing targeted insights and related research.
Daniar Amanaliev – Kyrgyzstan
Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board
Laura Callanan – United States
Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg – Switzerland and Brazil
Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations
Avril Joffe – South Africa
Post Graduate Coordinator of the Cultural Policy & Management Department at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
Marcel Kraus – Czech Republic
Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University's Hybernská Campus, Prague
Jairaj Mashru – India
Advisor – Design, Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship
Omar Nagati – Egypt
Architect, Urban Planner and Co-founder of CLUSTER
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Leandro Valiati – Brazil and South America
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Creative and Cultural Industries Programmes, University of Mancheste
Andrea Dempster Chung – Jamaica
Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation.
Dwinita Larasati – West Java, Indonesia
Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…
John Newbigin – UK
Chair, Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council John is the Mayor of London’s Ambassador for the Creative Industries and is Chair of Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council Gl…
Pearl Wang Haoqing – China
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global Cooperation and Education Development, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry
Research Alumni
Our Research Alumni made up our research consortium during Creative PEC’s first phase from 2018-2023.
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Xiaoren Wang
Postdoc research associate at CREATe
Claudia Burger
Policy Insights Manager
Tom Chivers
Research Associate
James Davies
Research Fellow, City-REDI, University of Birmingham
Ania Ostrowska
Research Officer (Screen), Creative Scotland
Matt Lyons
Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham
Victoria Barker
Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester
Raphael Leung
Data Science Fellow at Nesta
Oliver Cox
Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford
Richard Sambrook
Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University
Jorge Velez-Ospina
Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries
Ula Furgal
Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow
Wessel Vermeulen
Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Olivia Gable
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Martha Bloom
Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Melanie Wilkes
Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation
Rebecca Florisson
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Tasos Kitsos
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Diana Gutierrez Posada
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Eva Nieto McAvoy
Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
John Davies
Principal Data Scientist at Nesta
Cath Sleeman
Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics at Nesta
Juan Mateos-Garcia
Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta
Caitriona Noonan
Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Rebecca Riley
Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Paul Moore
Director of Future Screens NI (a part of AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme) and a Co-Director of Ulster University's Creative Industries Institute
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Raquel Ortega-Argile
Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Core Team
Iqra Choudhry
Policy Engagement Manager at the Creative PEC
Hasan Bakhshi MBE
Director
Nataliya Nikolova
UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)
Emily Hopkins
Policy Advisor
Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel
Research Associate (policy)
Nik Gunn
Policy Adviser
Anna Zabow
Head of Communications (job-share)
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Tom Cahill-Jones
Research Network Manager
Simon Budgen
Head of Operations
Billy Beckett
Communications Manager
Lilli Geissendorfer
Deputy Director
Bernard Hay
Head of Policy
Duncan Todd
Finance and Administration Manager
Makena Guantai Day
Executive Assistant
Alice Kent
Head of Communications (job-share)
Giorgio Fazio
Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Research Fellows Network
Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage
Simona Iammarino
Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;
Marlen Komorowski
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University
David Throsby
Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University
Raquel Ortega-Argiles
Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School
Hye-Kyung Lee
Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London
Jian Lin
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Pier Luigi Sacco
Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Dwinita Larasati
Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…
Roberta Comunian
Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King’s College London Roberta Comunian is Professor of Creative Economies at the Department for Culture, Media and Creative Indust…
Anthony Fung
Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong…
Avril Joffe
UNESCO Chair, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and a Research Associate (and former Head of Department) for Cultural Policy and Management at the School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand A…
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) at the University Anne Green previously worked at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development…
Heidi Ashton
Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick Heidi is a culture and creative ecology scholar at the Centre for Culture and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick…
Cynthia Carter
Dr, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Dr Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children…
Rowena Crawford
Manager, Frontier Economics Rowena is an experienced professional economist, passionate about using economics to provide high quality evidence and design effective public policies. She is currently a …
Jun Du
Professor of Economics at Aston Business School Jun Du is Professor of Economics at Aston Business School. She is an applied economist with expertise on internationalization, innovation and productivi…
Olivia Gable
Independent Researcher Dr Olivia Gable has a research background in creative industries, cultural policy, popular music, and insecure and precarious work. She currently leads research at Paul Hamlyn F…
Geoffrey Crossick
Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London
Andy Pratt
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 w…
Harman Sagger
Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS
Paul Owens
Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting Paul Is Co-Founder and Director of BOP Consulting, an international consultancy practice for culture and the creative economy. Paul has over thirty years̵…
Trilce Navarrete
Assistant Professor, the Erasmus University, Rotterdam Dr. Trilce Navarrete is a specialist in the economic and historical aspects of digital heritage, with special interest in digital cultural partic…
Karol J. Borowiecki
Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark Professor Karol J. Borowiecki is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the economic history of the arts. H…
Paul Moore
Professor/Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University Paul Moore joined the University of Ulster in 1999. He was head of the School of Creative Arts …
Stuart Cunningham
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Professor, University of Canbe…
Douglas Noonan
Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University – Indianapolis
Elisabetta Lazzaro
Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts
Patrycja Kaszynska
Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London Dr Kaszynska is Senior Research Fellow at University of the Arts London & Research Affiliate at Northeastern University London. She has a trac…
Graeme Evans
Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London
Mark Spilsbury
Research economist Mark has been working on a variety of projects relating to the creative industries, including defining the Creative Industries on behalf of the DCMS, Creative Skillset, Creative and…
Ricky Lawton
Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos Dr. Ricky Lawton is a Cultural Economist and Director of Economic Evaluation at Ipsos. Ricky specialises in economic valuation of intan…
Terry Flew
Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The University of Sydney Terry Flew is Professor of Digital Communication and Culture and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow at the Unive…
Jen Snowball
Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa In addition to her role at Rhodes, Jen is a researcher at the South African Cultural Observatory (SA…
Jason Potts
Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Jason Potts’ work is broadly centred on the study of the creation and use of new knowledge (i.e. technological change) and its institutional…
Tom Fleming
Director, TFCC Dr Tom Fleming is a global authority on cultural policy and the creative industries. His work focuses on advising governments, municipalities and institutions across the world to develo…
Valentina Montalto
Associate researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Researcher and consultant in policy and data analysis for the cultural and creative sectors (CCS), holding a PhD in geography from the Uni…
Joanna Woronkowicz
Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Cultural economist who conducts research on artist labo…
Michael Rushton
Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Michael Rushton has a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and teaches and writes in the fi…
Leandro Valiati
Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cultures – AHCP/Institute of Cultural Practices University of Manchester Researcher, lecturer and …
Tom Campbell
Consultant and BOP Associate Tom Campbell is a consultant and BOP Associate. Until recently he was Head of Creative Industries at the Knowledge Transfer Network, the business engagement agency of Inno…
Trine Bille
Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine received her PhD degree from the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 1996. She is an econ…
Kristofer Erickson
Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE)
Salvatore Di Novo
Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King's College London
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York
Frank Lyons
Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Stuart Allan
Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Monica Masucci
Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex
Roberto Camerani
Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Bartolomeo Meletti
Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Jenny Kidd
Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Neil Lee
Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport
Max Nathan
Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research
Candace Jones
Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (University of Glasgow)
Industry Champions
Tom Philipson
Founder of YourStudio and Special Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, UAL
Nia Williams
Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales
Claire Whitaker
Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025
Sharon Watson
CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance
Annie Warburton
CEO at the Goldsmiths' Company
Maria Tanjala
Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain
Tolu Stedford
Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions
Amy Smith
Head of Talent at Framestore
Jaswinder Singh
Director of Asian Arts Agency
Will Saunders
Consultant and Executive Producer
Lara Ratnaraja
Cultural Consultant
Laura Pye
Director at National Museums Liverpool
Dave Moutrey
Director of Culture and Creative Industries at Manchester City Council
Jo Morrison
Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium
Amanda Maxwell
Community Manager and board member of shesaid.so
Vikas Kumar
Founder and Director of GemArts
Jennifer Johnston
Head of Learning at Into Film
Tom Adeyoola
Entrepreneur
Sade Banks
Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons
Mandy Barker
Founder of Sail Creative
Lucy Bayliss
Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast
Charlotte Beevor
Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist
Stephen Bennett
Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist
Tom Chalmers
Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group
Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company
Global Creative Economy Council
Daniar Amanaliev – Kyrgyzstan
Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board
Laura Callanan – United States
Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg – Switzerland and Brazil
Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations
Avril Joffe – South Africa
Post Graduate Coordinator of the Cultural Policy & Management Department at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand
Marcel Kraus – Czech Republic
Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University's Hybernská Campus, Prague
Jairaj Mashru – India
Advisor – Design, Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship
Omar Nagati – Egypt
Architect, Urban Planner and Co-founder of CLUSTER
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Leandro Valiati – Brazil and South America
Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Creative and Cultural Industries Programmes, University of Mancheste
Andrea Dempster Chung – Jamaica
Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation.
Dwinita Larasati – West Java, Indonesia
Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita is a product designer, lecturer/researcher at the Faculty of Art & Design, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Focal Po…
John Newbigin – UK
Chair, Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council John is the Mayor of London’s Ambassador for the Creative Industries and is Chair of Creative PEC’s Global Creative Economy Council Gl…
Pearl Wang Haoqing – China
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global Cooperation and Education Development, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry
Research Alumni
Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra
Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
Xiaoren Wang
Postdoc research associate at CREATe
Claudia Burger
Policy Insights Manager
Tom Chivers
Research Associate
James Davies
Research Fellow, City-REDI, University of Birmingham
Ania Ostrowska
Research Officer (Screen), Creative Scotland
Matt Lyons
Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham
Victoria Barker
Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester
Raphael Leung
Data Science Fellow at Nesta
Oliver Cox
Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford
Richard Sambrook
Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University
Jorge Velez-Ospina
Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries
Ula Furgal
Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow
Wessel Vermeulen
Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Olivia Gable
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Martha Bloom
Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Melanie Wilkes
Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation
Rebecca Florisson
Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
Tasos Kitsos
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Diana Gutierrez Posada
Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Eva Nieto McAvoy
Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
John Davies
Principal Data Scientist at Nesta
Cath Sleeman
Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics at Nesta
Juan Mateos-Garcia
Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta
Caitriona Noonan
Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Rebecca Riley
Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Paul Moore
Director of Future Screens NI (a part of AHRC's Creative Industries Clusters Programme) and a Co-Director of Ulster University's Creative Industries Institute
Anne Green
Professor of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Raquel Ortega-Argile
Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham