People
Eduardo Saravia – Colombia/Germany
Chief Economist at Sound Diplomacy Eduardo Saravia is a cultural economist with over 16 years of experience designing and evaluating policies for the cultural and creative sectors across Latin America… Read More »Eduardo Saravia – Colombia/Germany
Kelly Wilhelm – Canada
Head of the Cultural Policy Hub at OCAD University Kelly Wilhelm (she/her) is a consultant and strategist with more than 25 years’ experience leading policy and innovation in Canadian government, the… Read More »Kelly Wilhelm – Canada
Wakiuru Njuguna – Kenya
Managing Partner, HEVA Fund Wakiuru Njuguna is a seasoned expert in Africa’s creative industries, with over 15 years ofexperience in structuring investment vehicles, raising capital, and deploying funding tocreative businesses… Read More »Wakiuru Njuguna – Kenya
Sara Pepper – UK
Co-Director of the Centre for the Creative Economy at Cardiff University Professor Sara Pepper OBE is an award winning and professionally respected creative and cultural industries leader with extensive strategic… Read More »Sara Pepper – UK
Octavio Kulesz – Argentina/Italy
Director of Teseo Octavio Kulesz is a philosopher, digital publisher, and director of Teseo, one of Latin America’s leading electronic publishing houses. As an expert collaborating with international organizations such… Read More »Octavio Kulesz – Argentina/Italy
Rebecca Swarray
Senior Policy Officer, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and freelance Curator, DJ and Producer
Steven Berryman
President of the Chartered College of Teaching and Senior Deputy Head, Sir William Perkins’s School
Rupert Oliver Allen
Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage
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
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… Read More »Anthony Fung
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 Studies (CURDS) at… Read More »Anne Green
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… Read More »Heidi Ashton
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 Manager at Frontier… Read More »Rowena Crawford
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 productivity. Jun’s… Read More »Jun Du
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 Foundation (PHF)… Read More »Olivia Gable
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 world… Read More »Andy Pratt
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… Read More »Jen Snowball
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 context… Read More »Jason Potts
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 develop… Read More »Tom Fleming
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 University… Read More »Valentina Montalto
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 labour markets and cultural facilities investments.… Read More »Joanna Woronkowicz
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.
Sawan Rathi
Research Fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School
Tolu Stedford
Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions
Diana Marcela Rey Vásque – Colombia-Canada
Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B
Marcel Kraus – Czech Republic
Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University’s Hybernská Campus, Prague
Edna dos Santos-Duisenberg – Switzerland and Brazil
Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations
Daniar Amanaliev – Kyrgyzstan
Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board
Mark Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
Patrizia Casadei
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE)
Hyojung Sun
Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York
Martin Kretschmer
Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe
Bruce Tether
Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School
Eva Nieto McAvoy
Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
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
Dave O’Brien
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester
Caitriona Noonan
Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Abigail Gilmore
UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport
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
Gillian Doyle
Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research
Raquel Ortega-Argile
Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
Philip Schlesinger
Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (University of Glasgow)
Giorgio Fazio
Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School
Josh Siepel
Associate Professor in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School