Shelagh Wright

Shelagh was born and raised in West Bengal of Scottish heritage. She describes herself as a ‘mongrel’ and is engaged with a diverse range of people and projects around the world on cultural and creative economy policy and sustainable practice. She has worked extensively with government and the public, charitable and private sectors on creativity, social enterprise, investment and innovation agendas and is an associate of the think tank Demos.

Her publications include 'After the Crunch – the creative economy in recession'; 'So.What Do You Do? A new question for policy in the Creative Age', 'Making Good Work', 'Design for Learning' 'Creativity, Money, Love'; in addition to articles and papers on creative enterprise, creative clusters, skills and investment policy.

Shelagh has led programmes of work with the British Council, Creative and Cultural Sector Skills Council, Screen England, Arts Council England, Creative Partnerships, was a contributor to the Creative Britain strategy and a member of the EU Expert Working Group on the Creative Industries.

She is also a Director of ThreeJohnsandShelagh (with John Holden, John Kieffer and John Newbigin) and an associate of the Culture+Conflict initiative.