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Nina Klein

Nina Klein

Nina studied history and German literature (M.A.) in Konstanz, Germany and Wellesley, USA, and holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA). Nina specialized in memory studies and published her thesis on “The Polish memory of Auschwitz. An analysis of the permanent exhibition at the national museum Auschwitz-Birkenau“ in 1999. She worked with museums (research, education) and as a print and radio journalist in Germany for over ten years before moving to Poland in 2002. There, she was director of a training programme for radio journalists, commissioned by the German Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). Afterwards, she worked as the director of the German Book Information Centre (2004-2007) in Warsaw. She joined the Frankfurt Book Fair team in 2008 as Director of Press and Public Relations. Since 2012, Nina has been a communications and business development consultant in Brussels and Frankfurt, specialising in innovation in digital publishing and adjacent creative sectors. She has published numerous articles and two e-books on these topics, with a focus on start-ups and new business models in publishing. Her clients include trade associations, festivals and public sector institutions, such as the European Commission. As an associate partner of the Frankfurt Book Fair, Nina is responsible for business development and innovation strategies, with a particular focus on the EU. In 2017, she launched THE ARTS+ Innovation Summit at THE ARTS+, a new business festival for the creative sectors. The Summit aims to strengthen the policy stakeholder dialogue, and to establish a supranational network of innovation support for the creative sectors. Nina has participated in EU projects such as “Technology and Innovation in Smart Publishing” (TISP) and ALDUS – European Book Fairs’ Network, and she is a member of the Executive Group of the European Technology Platform New European Media (NEM).

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Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar

Ljubica Knezevic Cvelbar holds a PhD in economics. She has published more than 40 journal papers to date, most of them in top tier tourism scientific journals. Knezevic has been invited to present her work at approximately 30 universities internationally. Her work won several national and international awards, most notably the international Sinclair Award for the best paper published in Tourism Economics in 2016, 2019. She was engaged as an expert in more than 50 consulting and research projects in the field of tourism, leisure and hospitality.

Indrek Ibrus

Indrek Ibrus is a professor of media innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM). He is also the head of TLU’s Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT). Currently his main research area are the innovative reuses of digitised cultural heritage contents, but he also leads research projects on cross-innovation, cross- and transmediality, media and cultural policies. He is the co-editor of “Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions” (together with Carlos A. Scolari; Peter Lang, 2012) Dr. Ibrus received his PhD from London School of Economics and Political Science.

Recent publications: Ibrus, Indrek; Rohn, Ulrike; Nanì, Alessandro (2018). Searching for public value in innovation coordination: How Eurovision Song Contest served to innovate the public service media model in Estonia. International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Rohn, Ulrike; Ibrus, Indrek (2018). A Management Approach to Transmedia Enterprises. In: Freeman, Matthew; Gambarato, Renira (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies. London: Routledge.

Gillian Doyle

Gillian Doyle is Professor of Media Economics and Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) at the University of Glasgow where she directs Glasgow’s MSc in Media Management. Her research on media economics and policy and on the impact of digitisation has been translated and published in several languages. Gillian is Principal Investigator (PI) on ‘Television Production in Transition: Independence, Scale and Sustainability’, a major research project examining recent transformations in ownership structures in the television production sector funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council (2017-2020). She was PI on a recently completed ESRC –funded project on ‘Multi-platform Media and the Digital Challenge’ which investigated economic and policy aspects of digital media convergence and on a major AHRC-funded project entitled ‘The UK Film Council: A Case Study of Film Policy in Transition’. She was also Lead Investigator on ‘Converging Technologies and Business Models’, a project that forms part of the work programme of CREATe, the RCUK hub for research on Copyright and New Business Models for the Creative Economy. Gillian has carried out and supervised studies on media economics and media policy for the Council of Europe, the European Commission and the OECD. Gillian is former President of the Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI).