PEC - Key Persons


Abigail Gilmore

Job Titles:
  • Policy Fellow
  • UKRI Policy Fellow
Abigail is UKRI Policy Fellow on Cultural Placemaking and Levelling Up with Department for Culture Media and Sport, and a researcher of local strategies for arts, culture and placemaking for over twenty years, beginning with a PhD on urban music policies. Following her doctorate, she was founding Director of Northwest Culture Observatory working with local government, the arts and cultural sector and regional agencies from 2004-2009. Recent projects with the PEC include UKRI Covid-19 impact on cultural industries & policy implications, and ‘Beyond the Creative City', an international network on cultural districts with University of Manchester, University of Toronto and University of Melbourne. She has two books with Palgrave published in 2023: ‘Culture, Participation and Policy in the Municipal Public Park,' and ‘Cultural Policy is Local' (with Victoria Durrer, Leila Jancovich and David Stevenson), and ‘Pandemic Culture' (with Dave O'Brien and Ben Walmsley) with Manchester University Press in 2024.

Alia Alzougbi

Job Titles:
  • Artist, Educator and Cultural Producer

Alice Kent

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Head of Communications ( Job - Share )

Amanda Maxwell

Job Titles:
  • Community Manager
  • Member of the Board
  • Community Manager and Board Member of Shesaid.so
Amanda Maxwell is a board member and Community Manager of women in music network shesaid.so and a regular contributor to panel talks on subjects related to inclusion, representation and equal empowerment within the creative industries. Alongside this Amanda also manages a London based DJ Ellie Prohan and most recently left Boiler Room as their Open Dance Floors Programmer and Project Manager ensuring the company looked across their platform for intersectionality and social political issues intertwined with music culture. In addition to this, Amanda has set up a collective for freelance womxn from music and creative sectors with over 100 members - it is a place for sharing of job roles, advice and amplifying one another.

Amir Hussain

Job Titles:
  • Board Member of the Leeds City Region LEP
  • Chief Executive at Yeme Architects
Amir is a Board Member of the Leeds City Region LEP as well as being a WYCA Panel Member of the Business, Innovation and Growth Panel and the Place Panel. Amir is a keen supporter of grass roots community involvement. Being a school Governor, Amir is energetically involved in school attainment improvement activities particularly aimed at underachieving pupils.

Amy Smith

Job Titles:
  • Head of Talent at Framestore

Andrea Dempster Chung

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Executive Director of Kingston Creative
  • Co - Founder and Executive Director of Kingston Creative a Blog from Creative P
Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation.

Andy Pratt

Job Titles:
  • UNESCO Chair of Global Creative Economy, and Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of Lond

Ania Ostrowska

Job Titles:
  • Research Alumni
  • Research Officer ( Screen ), Creative Scotland
  • Research Officer ( Screen ), Creative Scotland / Author

Anna Lowe

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify
  • CoFounder of Smartify
Anna Lowe is CoFounder of Smartify, a multi award-winning app named by the New Scientist as the ‘Shazam and Spotify of art'. In 2019 Anna was appointed as Youth Engagement Trustee at the Tate, making her the youngest ever trustee of a UK national museum. She is also listed on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30.

Anna Zabow

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Head of Communications ( Job - Share )
  • Head of Communications ( Job - Share ) Research Fellows Network

Anne Green

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham
  • Professor of Regional Economic Development at the City - Region Economic Development Institute ( City - R
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…

Annie Warburton

Job Titles:
  • CEO of Cockpit Arts, London
  • Chief Executive at Cockpit Arts
Annie Warburton is CEO of Cockpit Arts, London's leading studios for contemporary craft and design and a NatWest SE100 award-winning social enterprise. She curates exhibitions and writes, presents and broadcasts on craft, art and design in the UK and internationally. She also chairs the Government's industry panel developing the new T-Level in Craft and Design. Prior to joining Cockpit, Annie was Creative Director at the Crafts Council, where she led on exhibitions, international programmes, education and research, and directed an innovation programme on the intersections between craft, science and technology. Previously she served as CEO at ArtsMatrix and Head of Partnerships at Creative Skillset, where she pioneered industry apprenticeships in fashion, textiles and media. She is an Associate of Newnham College Cambridge.

Anra Kennedy

Job Titles:
  • Content and Partnerships Director at Culture24

Anthony Fung

Job Titles:
  • Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Antho
  • 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
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… Anthony Fung is Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests and teaching focus on digital communication, popular culture, cultural industries, creative/cultural industries and policy. He is editor-in-chief of Global Media and China and co-editor of International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Avril Joffe

Job Titles:
  • UNESCO Chair, Cultural Entrepreneurship and Policy, and a Research Associate ( and Former Head of Dep
Avril Joffe has an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Sussex and over thirty years of experience as a development economist specializing in arts and culture and the cultural and creative economies of Africa. As a dedicated educator and passionate lecturer her achievements include building the capacity of the Cultural Policy and Management department to offer courses and degrees at Honours, Masters and Doctoral levels in cultural entrepreneurship, cultural leadership, creative markets and audience engagement, and the complex intersection of culture, creativity and the economy.

Bartolomeo Meletti

Job Titles:
  • Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow
Bartolomeo Meletti works as Creative Director for CREATe, the UK Copyright and Creative Economy Centre (University of Glasgow). He is also the Director of Worth Knowing Productions, a digital creative team specialised in making complex knowledge accessible through research-based visual tools. Previously, Bartolomeo worked at the British Film Institute and the Digital Catapult on secondment from CREATe, and held research and media production positions at CIPPM, the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management (Bournemouth University), where he is currently a Visiting Fellow. As part of PEC, Bartolomeo works in the areas of Intellectual Property, Business Models, Access to Finance and Content Regulation. In particular, he is investigating how evidence in the field of copyright law can be structured and made accessible to policy makers, creators and members of the public through innovative digital resources.

Ben Carlin

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Megaverse and Immerse Sheffield

Ben Evans

Job Titles:
  • Director at London Design Festival
Ben Evans is the Director of London Design Festival, which he co-founded with Sir John Sorrell in 2003. The Festival celebrates and promotes London as the design capital of the world and has inspired similar events in many international cities. It is an annual event involving 400 partner organisations and attracts almost 1 million individual visits. As well as managing the Festival, Ben initiates, commissions and curates projects for the event including an annual residency in the V&A Museum. In 2016 he added a new activity - London Design Biennale - where countries, cities and territories present design installations to a theme taking over the entirety of Somerset House for three weeks. He is the Executive Director of the Biennale. He has been a Governor of the University of the Arts London, a Board Member of the Roundhouse, and a Trustee of Artangel. Since 2017 Ben has been Chairman of the Mayor's Cultural Leaders Board - a statutory advisory group to the London Mayor. In 2010 he was awarded an honorary degree from the Royal College of Art and graduated there in 1989.

Bernard Hay

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Head of Policy
  • Trustee for Engage

Billy Beckett

Job Titles:
  • Communications Manager
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Author
  • Creative PEC 's Communications Manager
Billy is Creative PEC's Communications Manager. He was previously Stakeholder Relations Officer at Nesta, supporting the organisation to develop, nurture and exploit its stakeholder relationships, particularly in relation to opinion formers, businesses and political audiences, to grow Nesta's influence.

Bruce Tether

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Innovation Management and Strategy at the Alliance Manchester Business School

Candace Jones

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School
Candace Jones is Chair of Global Creative Enterprise at the University of Edinburgh Business School. She received her Ph.D. from the University of. She examines creative industries as institutions, social networks, places, and their discourse. She is currently Associate Editor at Academy of Management Discoveries, was the Chair of the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division from 2011-2016, and Representative at Large OMT from 2007-2009 OMT, Academy of Management. She was awarded best reviewer award for Academy of Management Review in 2016 and 2018. Her edited volumes include: Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries (2015), Frontiers of Creative Industries (2018), Transformation in Creative Industries (2005), and numerous special issues. She was a member of Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre and Creative Informatics funded by the AHRC. She works with Historic Environment Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival and Festivals Edinburgh. She developed the Interdisciplinary Edinburgh Futures Institute MSc on creative industries.

Charlotte Beevor

Job Titles:
  • Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist
  • Member of the Society of Dyers
Charlotte is a proud member of the Society of Dyers and Colourists and The Association of Independent Professionals and the Self Employed, and guest lectures at a variety of universities. She has been featured in publications such as Elle Decoration, Ideal Home, House Beautiful, Living Etc, Pantone View, The Times and many more.

Claire Whitaker

Job Titles:
  • Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025

Claudia Burger

Job Titles:
  • Policy Insights Manager

Conor Mitchell - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Founder
  • Founder and Artistic Director of the Belfast Ensemble
Conor Mitchell is the Founder and Artistic Director of The Belfast Ensemble, a pioneering music organisation in Northern Ireland that produces ‘new music' through cross sectoral practice. A multi award-winning opera/theatre composer, librettist and stage director Mitchell is unique in his field, working towards a vision of ‘total theatre' through contemporary musical performance. His music blends the worlds of theatre and stage design with contemporary visual arts and finds new ways to engage his audience through socially relevant, politically charged subjects. Most recently his new chamber work Lunaria was performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and his radical chamber opera Abomination: a DUP Opera was listed in the Observer's ‘Top Ten Classical Works of 2019' alongside works from the Royal Opera House and others. As director of The Belfast Ensemble he has spearheaded their becoming of one the city's leading lights in contemporary musical performance, attracting international attention and praise towards Belfast as a vibrant music hub.

Dave Moutrey

Job Titles:
  • Director and CEO at HOME

Dave O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester

David Throsby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University

Diana Gutierrez Posada

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Dr Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School
  • Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School / Author
  • Research Associate in the Research
  • Research Associate in the Research Unit Creative PEC Based at Newcastle University
Dr Alejandro Ramirez-Guerra is a Research Associate in the research unit Creative PEC based at Newcastle University. His work at Creative PEC focuses on the economic analysis of the Creative Industries. Alejandro has published papers on the analysis of the labour market and the financial sector. Additionally, his research interest covers topics such as the evaluation of public policy, productivity analysis and applied econometrics. Alejandro holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Durham University and a Master in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Before joining Creative PEC and Newcastle University, Alejandro worked as an economist for the sectors of consultancy in the U.K. and the public administration in Mexico.

Dr Caitriona Noonan

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Jou
  • Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff Unive
  • Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University
Dr Caitriona Noonan is lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. Her expertise lies in the areas of television production, public service broadcasting, creative labour and cultural policy. Her work appears in academic journals such as the International Journal of Cultural Policy, Cultural Trends, and the European Journal of Cultural Studies. She has co-edited a book on Cultural Work and Higher Education and her book on Television Drama Production in the UK will be published in Spring 2019. Along with her role on the PEC, Caitriona is also principal investigator on an AHRC ECR funded project ‘Screen Agencies as Cultural Intermediaries: Negotiating and Shaping Cultural Policy for the Film and TV Industries within Small Nations' which examines the strategies for economic and cultural sustainability adopted by publicly funded screen agencies.

Dr Cath Sleeman

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow at Nesta
Dr Cath Sleeman is the Quantitative Research Fellow at Nesta. Her work shows new insights from novel sources of big data, such as using film credits to reveal the gender imbalance in UK film. She specialises in creating interactive data visualisations. In 2015 she won the Bank of England's data visualisation competition and in 2018 she won a special judges award for ‘A Forest of Funders' in 360Giving's data visualisation competition. She has been shortlisted twice for an Information is Beautiful award - most recently for Making Sense of Skills which shows how millions of job adverts can help to measure the demand for skills. Prior to Nesta, Cath was a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, completing a PhD in Economics. She has previously worked as a UK Economist at Morgan Stanley and as a Senior Economic Analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand

Dr Cynthia Carter

Job Titles:
  • Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff
Dr Cynthia Carter is Reader in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK. She has published widely on children, news and citizenship; young people and public service broadcasting; and feminist news and journalism studies. Her most recent book is the co-edited Journalism, Gender and Power (Routledge, 2019). She is a founding Co-Editor of academic journal Feminist Media Studies and serves on the editorial board of numerous media and communication studies journals. She also serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the children's media advocacy group Children's Media Foundation and frequently contributes to media policy and regulation interventions with government and Ofcom. 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…

Dr. Pearl Wang

Job Titles:
  • Investigator
Dr. Pearl Wang is a cross-boundary investigator bridging industry and academia. Closely working with the industry, she teaches courses of Cultural and Creative Industry Survey and Virtual Contents Creative and Production on campus. In addition to her professorship at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), she is a city-level entrepreneurship mentor, exhibition planner and city cultural planning consultant in China. Currently she also serves as Director of the Committee of Branding Overseas of China Association of National Advertisers. Collaborating with the UK scholars and practitioners, she was the Chinese Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded UK-China co-research project ‘Immersive Innovative and Interactive Experiences' (IIIE) in 2019 and ‘Cloud-based Virtual Film Production' in 2021

Dr. Ricky Lawton

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of Economic Valuation, Public Affairs Evaluation, Ipsos Dr. Ricky Lawton Is a Cultural Econ
  • Economist and Director of Economic Evaluation
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…

Dr. Trilce Navarrete

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Specialist
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…

Duncan Todd

Job Titles:
  • Finance and Administration Manager
  • Member of the Core Team

Dwinita Larasati

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer and Researcher at Industrial Design Program, FSRD ITB, Indonesia Tita Is a Product Designer

Elisabetta Lazzaro

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts

Emily Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Policy Advisor

Eva Nieto McAvoy

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Fiona McLaughlin

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founding Director at Taunt Studios

Frank Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University

Geoffrey Crossick

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London

Gillian Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor of Media Economics

Giorgio Fazio

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business Schoo
  • Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business Schoo / Author
  • Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

Graeme Evans

Job Titles:
  • Research University of the Arts London

Harman Sagger

Job Titles:
  • Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries ( CCI ), DCMS

Hasan Bakhshi

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Creative PEC 's Director
  • Director / Author

Heather Carey

Job Titles:
  • Director of Work Advance

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…

Helen Mort

Job Titles:
  • Author

Hope Dickson Leach

Job Titles:
  • Writer and Director

Hye-Kyung Lee

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King 's Col
  • Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King 's College London / Industry

Hyojung Sun

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in the Business of the Creative and Cultural Industries, School of Arts and Creative Techno

Indhu Rubasingham

Job Titles:
  • Artistic Director at Kiln Theatre

Inua Ellams

Job Titles:
  • Poet, Playwright, Performer, Graphic Artist and Designer

James Davies

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow, City - REDI, University of Birmingham

Jason Potts

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University Jason Potts' Work Is Broadly Centred on
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…

Jaswinder Singh

Job Titles:
  • Director of Asian Arts Agency

Jen Snowball

Job Titles:
  • Researcher
  • Professor of Economics Department
  • Professor of Economics Department of Economics and Economic History Rhodes University, South Africa
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…

Jennifer Johnston

Job Titles:
  • Head of Learning at into Film

Jenny Kidd

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Jian Lin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jo Morrison

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium

Joanna Woronkowicz

Job Titles:
  • 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
  • Faculty Director, Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public a

John Davies

Job Titles:
  • Principal Data Scientist at Nesta

John Newbigin

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the GCEC
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…

Jonathan Jones

Job Titles:
  • Consortium Partner
  • Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School

Jonathan Sapsed

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School

Jorge Velez-Ospina

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries

Josh Siepel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Juan Mateos-Garcia

Job Titles:
  • Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta

Karol J. Borowiecki

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University
  • Professor of Economics Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark Professor Karol J. Bo
  • Southern Denmark Professor
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…

Kevin Beimers

Job Titles:
  • Director of Italic Pig

Kobi Onyame

Job Titles:
  • Artist, Producer
  • Recording Artist, Producer and Songwriter

Kristofer Erickson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE

Kurban Kassam

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Film Producer

Lara Ratnaraja

Job Titles:
  • Cultural Consultant

Laura Pye

Job Titles:
  • Director at National Museums Liverpool

Leandro Valiati

Job Titles:
  • Researcher and Senior Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries School of Arts Languages and Cult
  • 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

Lesley Giles

Job Titles:
  • Director of Work Advance

Lilli Geissendorfer

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Director
  • Member of the Core Team

Liz Mosley

Job Titles:
  • Self - Employed Graphic Designer

Loyd Grossman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Royal Parks

Lucy Bayliss

Job Titles:
  • Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast

Makena Guantai Day

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant
  • Member of the Core Team

Mandy Barker

Job Titles:
  • Founder of Sail Creative

Maria Tanjala

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Big Couch and FilmChain

Mark Spilsbury

Job Titles:
  • Research Economist
  • Research Economist Mark Has Been Working on a Variety of Projects Relating to the Creative Industrie
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…

Mark Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Consortium Partner
  • Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

Marlen Komorowski

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University

Martha Bloom

Job Titles:
  • Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit ( SPRU ), University of Sussex

Martin Kretschmer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Matt Lyons

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham

Max Nathan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL

Melanie Wilkes

Job Titles:
  • Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation

Michael Rushton

Job Titles:
  • 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
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…

Michaela Greene

Job Titles:
  • Development and Communications Director at Roundhouse

Michelle Adia Scarlett

Job Titles:
  • Community Immersive Producer

Monica Masucci

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the
  • Senior Lecturer in Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the Department of Strategy and Marketing at the University of Sussex

Nasima Siddiqui

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder at WyndyMilla

Natalie Griffith

Job Titles:
  • Brand & Marketing Director of Unit 2 Games

Nataliya Nikolova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • UK Administration & Partnerships Manager ( Creative UK )

Neil Lee

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Economic Geography at London School of Economics

Nia Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director at Boom Cymru

Nia Williams

Job Titles:
  • Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales

Nick Keynes

Job Titles:
  • Director at Tileyard Studios

Nick Starr

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder at Bridge Theatre

Nik Gunn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Policy Adviser

Noel Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer and Director at Visual Artists Ireland

Oliver Cox

Job Titles:
  • Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford

Olivia Gable

Job Titles:
  • Independent Researcher
  • Independent Researcher Dr Olivia Gable Has a Research Background in Creative Industries, Cultural Po
  • Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation
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…

Omar Nagati

Job Titles:
  • GCEC Member and Co - Founder of CLUSTER - Outlines the Findings of a Study into the Crea
Omar Nagati - GCEC Member and Co-Founder of CLUSTER - outlines the findings of a study into the crea…

Patrizia Casadei

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

Patrycja Kaszynska

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Senior Research Fellow, University of the Arts London Dr Kaszynska Is Senior Research Fellow at Univ
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…

Paul H. O'Neill

Job Titles:
  • Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental
  • Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University - Indianapolis

Paul Moore

Job Titles:
  • Director of Future Screens NI ( a Part of AHRC 's Creative Industries Clusters Programme ) and a Co - Dir
  • 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
  • Professor / Director Future Screens NI, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster Univer
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 …

Paul Owens - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Director
  • Co - Founder and Director of BOP Consulting Paul Is Co - Founder and Director of BOP Consulting, an Inte
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 years&#821…

Phil Critchlow

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of TBI Media

Phil Stuart

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Creative Director of PRELOADED

Philip Schlesinger

Job Titles:
  • Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creati
  • Professor at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research and CREATe, Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy ( University of Glasgow )

Pier Luigi Sacco

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti - Pescara

Polly Tootal

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Photographer

Rachel O'Riordan

Job Titles:
  • Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Raphael Leung

Job Titles:
  • Data Science Fellow at Nesta

Raquel Ortega-Argile

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Raquel Ortega-Argiles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Chairman of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School

Rebecca Florisson

Job Titles:
  • Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation

Rebecca Riley

Job Titles:
  • Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Reiko Kaneko

Job Titles:
  • Ceramicist, Designer and Educator

Richard Sambrook

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University

Roberta Comunian

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Creative Economies
  • Professor, Department
  • Professor, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries King 's College London Roberta
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…

Roberto Camerani

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Rodrigo Cavalcante Michel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Research Associate ( Policy )

Rowena Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Manager
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 …

Rupert Oliver Allen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Manager of Economic Analysis, Creative Industries Sector, Department of Canadian Heritage

Sade Banks

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons

Salvatore Di Novo

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King 's College London

Sandeep Virdee

Job Titles:
  • Artistic Director and Founder Trustee at Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust

Sara Maioli

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Economics and Director of Post - Graduate Research at Newcastle University Business School

Sarah Bird

Job Titles:
  • Director of Wild Rumpus

Sarah Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company

Sawan Rathi

Job Titles:
  • Consortium Partner
  • Research Fellow in the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School

Sharon Watson

Job Titles:
  • CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Simon Budgen

Job Titles:
  • Head of Operations
  • Member of the Core Team

Simona Iammarino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE

Siobhan McAndrew

Job Titles:
  • Consortium Partner
  • Senior Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

Stephanie Edwards

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of Urban Symbiotics

Stephen Bennett

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  • Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual Artist

Stuart Allan

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

Stuart Cunningham

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  • Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham Is D
  • Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham Is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Professor, University of Canbe
Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Stuart Cunningham is Distinguished Emeritus Professor, Queensland University of Technology, Professor, University of Canbe…

Syima Aslam

Job Titles:
  • Director at Bradford Literature Festival

Tasos Kitsos

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Terry Flew

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Professor of Digital Communication
  • Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the University of Sydney Terry Flew Is Professor of
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…

Tolu Stedford

Job Titles:
  • Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions

Tom Adeyoola

Job Titles:
  • Entrepreneur

Tom Cahill-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Core Team
  • Research Network Manager

Tom Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Consultant
  • Head of Creative Industries
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…

Tom Chalmers

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  • Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group

Tom Chivers

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Tom Fleming

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  • Director
  • Director, TFCC Dr Tom Fleming Is a Global Authority on Cultural Policy and the Creative Industries.
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…

Tony Heaton

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Sculptor and Performance Artist

Trine Bille

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  • Full Professor, PhD Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School Trine Rece
  • Professor
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…

Ula Furgal

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  • Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow

Valentina Montalto

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  • Associate Researcher
  • Associate Researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne Researcher and Consultant in Policy an
  • Associate Researcher, University of Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne Researcher and Consultant in Policy an / Author

Vaughn McKenzie

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  • CEO of JAAK

Victoria Barker

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  • Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester

Vikas Kumar

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  • Founder and Director of GemArts

Wessel Vermeulen

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  • Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

Will Saunders

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  • Consultant
  • Executive Producer

Wolfgang Buttress

Job Titles:
  • Artist

Yehrin Tong

Job Titles:
  • Illustrator

Zing Tsjeng

Job Titles:
  • Freelance Journalist