People

Director

UK Administration & Partnerships Manager (Creative UK)

Policy Advisor

Research Associate (policy)

Policy Adviser

Head of Communications (job-share)

Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School

Research Network Manager

Head of Operations

Communications Manager

Deputy Director

Head of Policy

Finance and Administration Manager

Executive Assistant

Head of Communications (job-share)

Research Director of Creative PEC and Chair of Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

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

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

Senior Lecturer in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield

Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University Business School

Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries at The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at The University of Manchester

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

Director of Work Advance

Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Newcastle University Business School

Director of Work Advance

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

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

Visiting Professor at the Department of Geography & Environment of the LSE;

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Economy, Cardiff University

Distinguished Professor of Economics at Macquarie University

Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School

Professor of Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London

Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professor of Biobehavioral Economics, Department of Neuroscience, University of Chieti-Pescara

Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London

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…

Head Economist for Culture and Creative Industries (CCI), DCMS

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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

Paul H. O'Neill Professor IU Center for Cultural Affairs, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University – Indianapolis

Professor, Business School for the Creative Industries, University for the Creative Arts

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…

Professor Emeritus, Research University of the Arts London

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Professor of Social Data Science and Deputy Director for CREATE 

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

Dean of Research and Impact in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Ulster University

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

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

Creative Director for CREATe at the University of Glasgow

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

Associate Professor, Applied Urban Sciences, UCL

Professor of Media Economics at the University of Glasgow and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research

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)

Annie is Managing Director at Nevill Holt Opera

Director of Learning and Engagement at National Museum Wales

Bid Director, Southampton City of Culture 2025

CEO and Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Chief Executive at Cockpit Arts

Artistic Director and Founder Trustee at Darbar Arts Culture Heritage Trust

Freelance Journalist

Freelance Photographer

Illustrator

Managing Director at Boom Cymru

Co-founder of Big Couch and FilmChain

Founder and Creative Director of PRELOADED

Development Producer at the Independent Film Trust and CEO of Creative Lions Productions

Co-Founder at Bridge Theatre

Head of Talent at Framestore

Director of Asian Arts Agency

Co-Founder at WyndyMilla

Community Immersive Producer

Consultant and Executive Producer

Artistic Director at Kiln Theatre

Cultural Consultant

Director at National Museums Liverpool

Artistic Director of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre

Recording artist, Producer and Songwriter

Director and CEO at HOME

Self-employed Graphic Designer

Author

Director of Digital Innovation at Calvium

Founder and Artistic Director of The Belfast Ensemble

Co-founding Director at Taunt Studios

CEO of JAAK

Community Manager and board member of shesaid.so

Co-founder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify

Writer and Director

Founder and Director of GemArts

Director at Tileyard Studios

Content and Partnerships Director at Culture24

Chief Executive Officer and Director at Visual Artists Ireland

Freelance Film Producer

Ceramicist, Designer and Educator

Head of Learning at Into Film

Founder and CEO of Sour Lemons

Brand & Marketing Director of Unit 2 Games

Founder of Sail Creative

Head of Creative Programmes at DanceEast

Entrepreneurial Designer and Stylist

Director of Italic Pig

Joint Head of Policy Lab and Visual artist

Director of Wild Rumpus

Artist

Co-Founder of Megaverse and Immerse Sheffield

Founder and CEO of TBI Media

Co-Founder of Urban Symbiotics

Entrepreneur

Artist, Educator and Cultural Producer

Freelance Sculptor and Performance Artist

Founder and Managing Director at Legend Times Group

Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company

Director at Bradford Literature Festival

Development and Communications Director at Roundhouse

Chairman of The Royal Parks

Poet, Playwright, Performer, Graphic Artist and Designer

Director at London Design Festival

Chief Executive at Yeme Architects

Co-founder and Band Master of ololo group, Chair of Kyrgyzstan’s Creative Industries Park Board

Founding Partner of Upstart Co-Lab

Vice-President, International Federation on Multimedia Associations

Post Graduate Coordinator of the Cultural Policy & Management Department at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand

Head of the Hyb4City department at Charles University's Hybernská Campus, Prague

International Advisory Board of the Global Creative Economy Council

Architect, Urban Planner and Co-founder of CLUSTER

Cultural Statistics Expert at UNDP for Saudi Arabia, Associate Researcher at Lado B

Senior Lecturer and Programme Director in Creative and Cultural Industries Programmes, University of Mancheste

Andrea Dempster Chung is the co-founder and executive director of Kingston Creative, an NGO that uses arts to achieve social and economic transformation.

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…

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…

Associate Professor and Director, Center for Global Cooperation and Education Development, USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry

Research Associate at Newcastle University Business School

Postdoc research associate at CREATe

Policy Insights Manager

Research Associate

Research Fellow, City-REDI, University of Birmingham

Research Officer (Screen), Creative Scotland

Research Fellow at City REDI, University of Birmingham

Research Associate in Creative Economy, University of Manchester

Data Science Fellow at Nesta

Heritage Engagement Fellow at the University of Oxford

Professor of Journalism at Cardiff University

Research Fellow in Innovation and Creative Industries

Research Associate at CREATe, University of Glasgow

Lecturer in Macroeconomics at Newcastle University Business School

Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation

Researcher at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex

Policy Analyst at the Work Foundation

Policy Advisor at the Work Foundation

Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Research Fellow at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Research Associate at the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Principal Data Scientist at Nesta

Quantitative Research Fellow, Creative Economy & Data Analytics at Nesta

Director of Innovation Mapping at Nesta

Lecturer in Media and Communication in the School for Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University

Business Development Director of City REDI at the University of Birmingham

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 of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham

Chair of Regional Economic Development at City REDI at the University of Birmingham