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Innovation Economist and Lead Sector Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Professor of Creative Industries, Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick

Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh

Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire

Senior Lecturer in Economics at Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University

Professor at BI Norwegian Business School and the co-director of BI Centre for Creative Industries

Programme Leader, MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme at LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore

Founder & Director, Pulmón Creativo

Postdoctoral Researcher at Copenhagen Business School

Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University

Professor of Public Policy at the Price School, University of Southern California

Full Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Valladolid

Professor at the Department of Economic Structure of the University of Valencia

Director, Research at BOP Consulting

Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow and Programme Director for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Place-Based Research Programme Rebecca Madgin trained as a historian and specialised… Read More »Rebecca Madgin

Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Industries and Culture, De Montfort University

Head of Design Research at V&A Dundee and a Reader in Design at DJCAD, University of Dundee

Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont

Research Fellow at the Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick Business School

Adjunct Professor at Roma Tre and Tor Vergata universities

Part-time Professor at the European University Institute

Full-time researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Marcos Valdivia is a full-time researcher at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research… Read More »Marcos Valdivia

SNAAP Research Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield

Data Scientist at Senac National Department (Brazil)

Research Fellow for Skills and Innovation for the Media Cymru project at the University of South Wales Dr James Davies is a Research Fellow for Skills and Innovation for the… Read More »James Davies

Professor of Economics at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics “Cognetti de Martiis”, University of Turin Enrico Bertacchini is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the Department of… Read More »Enrico Bertacchini

Senior Research Fellow, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra

Associate Professor, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University

Head of Social and Economic Research, Historic England

Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour and Cultural Work, Department for Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), King’s College London Tamsyn Dent is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Labour and Cultural… Read More »Tamsyn Dent

Creative Industries Director, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Junior Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Turin

Associate Professor of Business Economics and Management at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS)

Associate Professor at the School of Creative Industries, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore Associate Professor Natalia Grincheva is 2026 Digital Statecraft Academic Cambridge Fellow, Leader… Read More »Natalia Grincheva

Head of Creative Economy Section, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations

Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology at the School of Creative Management, Goldsmiths, University of London George is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology specialising in psychosocial risk. His research on… Read More »George Musgrave

Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Geography and Environment of the London School of Economics (LSE)

Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London

Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York

Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Glasgow, and Director of CREATe

Professor and Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School

Economist and Policy Analyst, Culture, Creative Industries and Global Events Unit, OECD

Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex

Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics

UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport

Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School

Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (University of Glasgow)