Dr Xin Gu Director, Master of Cultural and Creative Industries, Monash University

Xin Gu is director of the Master of Cultural and Creative Industries (MCCI) at Monash University in Australia. She has published widely on urban creative clusters and agglomerations, cultural work, creative entrepreneurship, cultural and creative industries policy, media cities, maker culture and cyberculture in China. Xin has worked with policy initiatives in the UK, China and Indonesia to support small-scale local creative industries development services. Xin Gu is in the UNESCO expert facility for the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expression. Her work focuses on the transformation of creative cities and the creative economy under different social, economic and political conditions. Xin is the world-leading expert in contextualizing Western discourses in Asia and of convergence and divergences in the globalized creative economy. Xin’s current research concerns the digital creative economy, looking at the democratization of creativity through vast transformative digital media ecosystems.

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