Andy Pratt

Overview

Andy is an internationally acclaimed expert on the topic of the cultural industries. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has held academic appointments at University College London (Bartlett School of Planning) and LSE (Geography, and Urban Research Centre), King’s College, London (Culture, Media and Creative Industries). He joined City University as Professor of Cultural Economy in 2013.

He has published over 190 items: books, chapters and articles.

Andy specializes the analysis of the cultural industries in the US, Europe and Japan. This research has two strands. The first focuses on the urban spatial clustering of cultural industries; he is particularly interested in the social and economic dynamics of clustering. The second strand concerns the definition and measurement of employment in the cultural, or creative, industries. He has developed definitions of the cultural sector that are used as standard measures by UNCTAD and UNESCO.

Andy has had major recent research projects funded by UK research councils. He is currently co-principal investigator for a major grant of £4.5m to develop a Creative Economy Hub in London. He currently has a Euro5m H2020 project CICERONE which explores cultural production chains in Europe

Andy has worked as a consultant or advisor for national and urban policy makers, and the EU, UNESCO, UNCTAD, World Bank and WIPO, and the British Council.

Advisory Boards

• Department of Culture, Media and Sport: Expert advisory committee on cultural statistics (2001-)
• Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Cultural Industry Cluster (2005-)
• Advisory Board of MSc World Heritage and Cultural Policy, UNESCO/University of Turin (2006-)
• Advisory Board of German Marshall Fund/ Compagnia di San Paolo on Urban Regeneration (2006-)
• Expert advisory committee on Creative industries, Greater London Authority (2006-)
• Advisory Board: Media Industries Research Centre, Leeds University (2008-)
• Member of the Steering Committee on the European Cultural Creative Summit (Brussels) , 2009

Advisory work for UNCTAD, UNESCO and WIPO

Andy has advised the cities of Hong Kong, Barcelona, Bilbao, Shanghai on cultural strategy.

Journal editing and board membership

• Editor-in-Chief: City, Space and Society (2012-)

• Editorial Board: Geoforum (2004-6)(2006-9) Cities, Space and Society (2009-) Co-editor of media@lse Electronic Working Papers (2003-9)

Guest Editor:

• 2011 Guest editor Cities, Creative cities and the recession
• 2009 Guest editor of Information Communication and Society v 12 on Copyright and the Music Industry -2008 Guest editor of Theory Culture and Society annual review on precarious labour and the cultural industries
• 2008 Guest editor of special issue of Growth and Change 39.1 on Cultural Commodity Chains
• 2005 Guest editor and special issue of International Journal of Cultural Policy 11.1 on the cultural industries (with Prof D. Hesmondhaulgh, Open University, Sociology)
• 2003 Special issue on the creative industries in Creativity and Innovation Management 11:4 (Guest Editor with Prof P Jeffcutt, Dept of Management, Queens Belfast)
• 1997 Special issue on cultural industries, Environment and Planning Vol A: 29, 11
• 1993 Special issue on the electronics industry and FDI, Environment and Planning C: Government and policy, Vol 10
• 1992 Special issue on the debate about environmental pricing. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol 36

Qualifications

• D.Litt, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, Mar 2014 – May 2015
• Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences, 2011
• Certified Geographer, Royal Geographical Society, London, United Kingdom, 2006
• Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts, 2002
• PhD Department of Geography, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, Jan 1989
• BSc (Hons) Geography, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, Jan 1981

Employment

• Professor of Cultural Economy, City, University of London, 2013 – present
• Professor of Cultural Economy, King's College London, Jan 2009 – Jan 2013
• Reader in Urban Cultural Economy, London School of Economics, Jan 2005 – Jan 2009
• Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, London School of Economics, Jan 1998 – Jan 2005
• Lecturer (B) in Human Geography, London School of Economics, Jan 1992 – Jan 1997
• Lecturer (B), Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, Jan 1991 – Jan 1992
• Senior Lecturer in Local Economic Development and Planning, Coventry University, Jan 1990 – Jan 1991
• Lecturer in Planning, Coventry University, Jan 1988 – Jan 1990
• Lecturer, Department of Geography, North Staffordshire University, Jan 1987 – Jan 1988
• Lecturer, Department of Planning, Coventry University, Jan 1986 – Jan 1987
• Research Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, Jan 1982 – Jan 1983

Expertise

Geographic Areas

• Africa - Western
• Americas - North
• Americas - South
• Asia - Southeast
• Europe