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We woke to learn with terrible sadness that we have lost Jude Woodward, a comrade, a friend, and an inspiration. I worked with Jude at the GLA for eight years, which made London what it is today [...]

In September 2018 Sergey Levchenko, the left-wing governor of the region of Irkutsk, organised a conference on Regional and local development, with the assistance of Boris Kakarlitsky. We [...]

Arising from the [Cultural Audit of London], at my suggestion, the Burns-Owens Partnership (who produced the report) established a ‘club’ of World Cities to exchange benchmarked information and [...]

The final creative industry estimates published by the Greater London Authority

Commissioned by the GLA and provided by London Economics

This postrecords some of the technical discussions between the GLA and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) arising from ONS work on [Regional Creative Industry] statistics. They are of [...]

In 2008 the GLA decided to commission an independent evaluation of the benefits of the Living Wage. This was to include benefits to the employers such as efficiency gains and to the contractor, [...]

On March 17-18 2008 the Conference Board of Canada held an International Forum on the Creative Economy in Ottawa-Gatineaux. It was the start of my collaboration with Peter Higgs of Queensland [...]

This report, published by the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency in March 2008, benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris, New York, Tokyo [...]

One of four updates to the original Greater London Authority Creative Industry Data Series. Contains additional information on precarity, gender and ethnic distribution of jobs in the creative [...]