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I have worked on various cross-sector, systems change efforts in and across different parts of the globe for more than 15 years. I currently work in philanthropy, collaboration, and capacity building, particularly in agroecological research.
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Currently professor of gerontology and social policy, school of social and political sciences , Melbourne. I have worked as a community psychologist in London's East End, at the UK Social Work Council, Keele University, Kings College London and now The University of Melbourne and BSL, a local NGO. Most of my work has been on adult ageing, looking at national and international policy. I've done research on, consumption and identity of midlifers, psychodynamic approaches to adult ageing, elder abuse, intergenerational relations, older workers, regulation and organisations, working with NGOs, and public attitudes to dementia. The latest book is called 'negotiating ageing: cultural adaptation to the prospect of a long life'.
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Andy is an expert on the topic of the cultural industries. He has held academic appointments at University College London and LSE, King’s College, London. He joined City University London in 2013. Andy established and was founding chair of the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at KCL; and is currently Director of the Centre for Culture and the Creative Industries at City University. Andy specializes the analysis of the cultural industries globally. This research has three strands. The first focuses on the social and economic dynamics of clustering and knowledge exchange. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. The third concerns cultural governance and policy making at the national, regional and urban scales. He has developed definitions of the cultural sector that are used as standard measures of trade and employment by UNCTAD and UNESCO. Andy has made a notable contribution (textually and methodologically) to all iterations of the “Creative Economy Report’; and to the World Cities Culture Report. He has just completed the first systematic comparison of cultural employment in North America and Europe for NESTA and a report on Creative Hubs for the British Council. Andy has worked as a consultant or advisor for national and urban cultural and creative industry policy makers globally, and specifically reports for the EU, Council of Europe, UNESCO, UNCTAD, and WIPO, and the British Council.
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Education Economist and Policy Analyst
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A researcher on ASEAN political and security cooperation at the ASEAN Studies Centre of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore. Prior to joining the Centre in mid-2012, I had served at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta from February 1993 until retirement in July 2012. Before joining the ASEAN Secretariat I worked as a journalist at The Nation, an English language daily in Bangkok.
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Kris Hartley is Assistant Professor of Sustainability and Enterprise at Arizona State University, School of Sustainability. He researches global-to-local policy transfer in the application of technology to sustainability transitions, and has published books with Cambridge University Press and Routledge Press. He has been a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (2020) and has held faculty appointments at Cornell University and University of Melbourne.
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Head of the Foreign Aid Unit, French Treasury
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Dylan O’Driscoll is an Associate Professor (Research) at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) and Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). His work bridges academia and policy and focuses on the drivers of conflict and pathways to peace. He is particularly interested in understanding people’s behaviour in relation to acts of peace and conflict at the everyday level.
Prior to joining CTPSR Dylan was Director of the MENA Programme and Senior Researcher at SIPRI. He previously held the Conflict Research Fellowship at the Social Science Research Council; was Associate at the LSE Middle East Centre; was a Researcher and Lecturer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester; was a Research fellow at the Middle East Research Institute (MERI) in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and a Visiting Researcher at the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), in Warsaw, Poland. He has a PhD in Ethnopolitics from the University of Exeter.
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PhD in Creative Industries. My main focus is creative cities in Southeast Asia.
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Assistant Professor in Cultural Policy and Arts Management at the University of Warwick