Katelijn Verstraete, Director Arts and Creative Industries

East Asia British Council

6th December 2017

The creative economy as a pathway to sustainable developmentBritish Council East Asia

@UK_CE

@BritishArts

@weikailing

Creative Economy

Creative Economy

Creative Economy- Global

Creative Economy Asia

Singapore

In Singapore, the design sector contributed S$2.13 billion to the nation's GDP in 2013 and employed 30,000 people. ... Singapore is also a Unesco“Creative City of Design” and the ninth most creative country in the world according to Martin Prosperity Institute's Global Creativity Index.May 25, 2016

Vietnam

Indonesia

Thailand

Malaysia

Philippines

British Council & Creative Economy

“ The notion of the creative industries needs to be released from its limited definition… (it) has already extended to the much bigger field of social innovation which impacts on almost every area of daily life, from mobility to food networks, from health to elderly care, from education to social cohesion.” - Ezio Manzini, Chair Professior of Design for Social Innovation at UAL