Alan Freeman

Winnipeg, Canada Area Canada

Co-director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Canada

Education

Alan Freeman is a retired but research-active cultural economist. He formerly worked at for the Mayor of London, England where he held lead responsibility for the Living Wage, Innovation, Cultural and Creative Industries and benchmarking World Cities. He lives in Winnipeg, Canada He is co-director with Radhika Desai of the Geopolitical Economy Research Unit. With Hasan Bakhshi and Peter Higgs he has recently completed two report by the UK think tank called National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), which established a new standard for the definition and measurement of the Creative Industries. He served as expert advisor to the UK DCMS taskforce on the creative ind...