United Kingdom
Peter Rudge, A member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and the United Nations Expert Group on Creative Economies, UK.
Peter.Rudge@wbaforum.org
Peter Rudge is an award-winning creative entrepreneur, speaker, academic, writer and film and television producer. A passionate advocate and supporter of new talent, working with young filmmakers and creatives across the UK and internationally, Peter has produced or executive produced more than a dozen feature films from new writers, directors and producers, as well as supporting young graduate companies and start-ups.
A 30 career in the film and television industries with Hollywood studios Columbia Pictures and Universal Studios, and as an independent writer and producer, Peter has, over the last 10 years focused on building sustainable creative economies in developing and challenged regions. He was named as part of the Creative England CE50 in 2018, a list of the top 50 leaders and innovators in the digital creative industries and received the Vice Chancellor’s Outstanding Contribution Award that same year for his work in founding the moving image cluster Platform, supporting the screen sector in the UK.
He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network and the United Nations Expert Group on Creative Economies. Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an active member of the Speakers 4 Schools charity.
He is currently working on a book for Routledge entitled Beyond the Blue Economy: Clusters and Creative Economies in Small Island Developing States, due to be published in early 2021.