About Eliza

Eliza (Erskine) Easton is a leading authority on the creative industries. She has published more than forty policy and research papers on the sector, with recent work covering topics as varied as education, business models, trade policy and devolution. Her work has directly shaped UK government thinking including on immigration, funding, soft power and regional development.

Eliza spent five years as Head of Policy and then Deputy Director of the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre – an £8m Government and AHRC funded research and policy centre, based at Nesta. Prior to this, she was part of the founding team of the Creative Industries Federation (now CreativeUK).

She chairs the BFI’s Research Advisory Group, was a Cambridge University Policy Fellow (2020–2022), and is now an RSA Fellow and a Research Associate at the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge. She is a trustee for arts charity Gerry’s Pompeii which preserves the legacy of outsider artist Gerry Dalton. 

Alongside her research work, Eliza writes literary reviews and essays - often about her favourite author, P.G. Wodehouse.

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