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Professor Andy Pratt attends Creative Economy Strategic Alliance Meeting

Professor Andy Pratt has recently attended the Creative Economy Strategic Alliance (Americas) Meeting in Medellin, Colombia with the British Council.

Professor Pratt was invited to speak at a special meeting of those engaging in creative industries policy making in the Americas. The meeting took place in Medellin, Colombia from 12-15 March. The British Council’s Creative Economy team is re-developing its programme in the Americas, after delivering successful projects in the region for over a decade. In order to better understand the opportunities for work, the team is setting up a steering group to help them examine and co-develop their future work. 

Andy is part of that group which met up in Medellin to identify opportunities and needs in this area, and make suggestions for co-designed and co-funded programmes and approaches to the British Council’s work with regional partners. Partners included policy specialists from most American countries, and two very important agencies: the Inter-American development bank, and the Organisation of American States.

Andy spoke on topics associated with local capacity building in the creative industries. This drew upon work that he has recently completed for UNESCO which will form a chapter for the upcoming Creative Economy Report No.3 to be published later this year.

Andy has been advising the British Council Creative Economy Programme for a number of years. Recently he has worked often with Latin American countries through his work with WIPO (the UN intellectual property rights body) and CERLALC the Latin American authors rights body.