Marcus O’Dair Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange & Enterprise, University of the Arts London (UAL)

Marcus O’Dair is Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise at University of the Arts London (UAL). He is the author of  Distributed Creativity (Palgrave 2018),  about the potential impact of blockchain technology on the creative economy, and  Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt  (Serpent’s Tail 2014), a Radio 4 book of the week that was shortlisted for the Penderyn prize. Marcus is co-editor of  Mute Records: Artists, Business, History (Bloomsbury 2018) and has contributed to edited collections including  Business Transformation Through Blockchain  (Palgrave 2019), Jazz and Totalitarianism  (Routledge 2017) and  Punk Pedagogies (Routledge 2018). He has also contributed to peer-reviewed journals including  Popular Communication, Strategic Change, Popular Music,  IASPM@Journal,  Life Writing  and  the  International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Marcus has also written for the  Guardian, the  Independent, the  Times, the  Financial Times  and the  Irish Times, and appeared on CNN, Radio 1, 6 Music, Radio 3 and the World Service. As one half of Grasscut, Marcus has released three acclaimed albums and performed across Europe. He was previously a session musician with  Passenger.