ACEI Member Directory

Professor of Economics and Public Policy

PhD student in Digital Cultural Economics. Editor of the blog 'Economist Talk Art' and Ambassador of Young Cultural Economists Network

Member of the ACEI Communications Board. Co-editor of the Cultural Economics & the Creative Economy Book Series for Palgrave Macmillan. Mathematician and economist, interested in the arts.

Bill Ivey is a folklorist and historian who served as the 7th chairman of the US National Endowment for the Arts. He was director of the Country Music Hall of Fame and founded Vanderbilt University's Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, Public Policy.

Boram Lee, PhD in Finance, is a Senior Lecturer in Arts and Cultural Management, University of South Australia. She is specialised in the field of accounting and finance with an emphasis on behavioural studies based on psychological approaches. Boram

Bronwyn is a cultural economist who uses uses techniques and approaches from behavioural economics. Key topics that her research explores include the role of gender in determining preferences for fine art, artists careers & creative entrepreneurship

Cameron earned a dual PhD in economics and historical studies at the New School for Social Research in NYC in 2015, where he helped created the field exam in cultural economics.

Ph.D. from Harvard University and multidisciplinary artist. My music has been performed by MET Orchestra musicians and the OSM Symphony Orchestra. Published a Novel and 300 flash fictions (Spanish). Represented by Galeria Marstell as visual artist.

Associate professor of Applied Economics at University of Brescia. In 2018, country expert for Italy in the OECD research project: “Culture and local development: Maximising the impact.” Member of the editorial board of Tourism Economics.

Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Economics at Macquarie University. I study how consumers choose and value cultural products and how cultural producers and organisations can improve their strategies in the digital age.

Associate Professor in Public Economics, University of Turin

Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics, Professor at the University of Florence

Fiona is a post-doctoral research fellow at Rhodes University, South Africa. Her research focuses on the creative economy in Africa, including labour markets, the spatial dynamics of the creative industries, arts festivals, heritage and tourism.

Former Adjunct Director of World Heritage Centre at UNESCO Principal of Gaia-heritage consulting & University lecturer Website: www.gaia-heritage.com

Lead at MIT Culture Dynamics, Instructor of entrepreneurship for creatives at MIT , Cultural entrepreneur in residence at MITdesignX.

Dr. Hamidreza Sheshjavani is a researcher in Cultural Economics with interests in cultural policymaking, copyright, art market and creative labour market. He is a policy analyst in the Cultural Policy Hub at OCAD University.

Dr. Ivo Iv. Velinov serves as an assistant professor in cultural studies and cultural economics at New Bulgarian University, Sofia (Bulgaria). His works focus mainly on semiotic approach.

Dr. Joanna Woronkowicz is an associate professor at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University where she is the co-founder and faculty director of the Center for Cultural Affairs and the co-director of the AEI Lab.

Universidad de Oviedo

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Professor-researcher at the Department of Geography and Territorial Planning of the University of Guadalajara since 1994. PhD in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, 2010).

Meijo University

Economist, full professor in the Graduate Program in Economics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the field of knowledge of Regional and Urban Economics

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A PhD student in Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at the Università degli Studi della Tuscia in Viterbo (Italy) with a research project focusing on the Viterbo’s candidacy proposal at European Capital of Culture 2033.

Former art curator of contemporary art at The National Museum of Cuba. Cultural promoter and collections adviser.

Miyuki Taniguchi (Ph.D. in Economics, Keio university) is an associate professor at Kyoto Tachibana University. Her research interest is in investigating the effects of such deregulation policies.

Professor, Jagiellonian University. Specialises in multidisciplinary research in cultural economics, socio-economic geography and urban studies, with a focus on heritage, museums, CCIs and artists, in particular in Central and Eastern Europe.

Dr. Pablo Angel Lugo's contributions as a researcher, artist, and art market specialist have garnered international recognition. Driven by an unwavering commitment to pushing boundaries and effecting positive change, Dr. Lugo continues to inspire.

Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Southern Denmark, specializing in Cultural Economics and Data Science. Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Alcalá in 2024, and recognized with the President's Prize at the ACEI 2023.

Paolo Petrocelli (PhD-EMBA) has established himself as one of the leading cultural leaders of his generation on the international scene.

Dr Paul Crosby is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in the economics of digitisation, entertainment, social media, culture, sport, and consum

Dr. Paulsen is currently an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at University of Michigan. He studies labor market issues in the entertainment issues, with a focus on sports and the arts.

PhD (econ), senior lecturer, Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

Adjunct Professor @ University of Bologna

Now semi-retired I am a Visiting Fellow in The Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. I am a micro-econometrician whose recent research focuses on two areas Australian Indigenous art at auction and on street performers.

Yuki Takara is a Senior Lecturer at Bunkyo University, Faculty of Business Administration , Japan.

Funder of studies of art economics group and website