Paul is a leading international advisor and practitioner in cultural policy and creative economy. He is Co-Founder of BOP, and alongside his fellow directors he has pioneered now well-established methods to measure the impact of cultural policy.
Co-Founder and Director
Paul Owens
Callum leads the BOP team, its portfolio and strategic partnerships. His cultural and creative industries expertise is founded on leading analytical research and policy formulation in the UK and internationally.
Managing Director
Callum Lee
Richard is a world leading expert in research methodologies for the culture and the creative industries, having been an early innovator in the development of frameworks for measuring the economic and social impacts of cultural activities.
Director, Research
Richard Naylor
Based in London, Kata manages operations and leads on culture development at BOP.
Operations Manager
Kata Ovari
Working as part of the Finance & Operations team, and alongside the Managing Director, Lulu manages finances for BOP.
Finance Manager
Lulu Guan-Jones
Rachel is an Associate Director at BOP, with extensive experience of planning for and launching exciting cultural destinations. She leads much of our Master Planning work, helping clients to realise new programmes, capital projects and shape destinations.
Associate Director
Rachel Kuhn
Amy is an Associate Director at BOP, with a background heading up major cultural organisations and complex arts projects. She leads on our cultural placemaking work.
Associate Director
Amy Walker
Jonathan is an economist with over a decade’s experience in impact assessment and evaluation, and high-level policy experience, particularly within the cultural and creative sectors.
Chief Economist
Jonathan Todd
Amanda’s experience in data, insight & evaluation was developed in the cultural industries - from funding bodies, to multi-disciplinary subsidised and international commercial arts organisations.
Senior Consultant
Amanda Cusimano
Bethany is an experienced consultant, who has worked for a range of national and international clients over the past ten years. Her main focus is designing and implementing research and evaluation projects.
Senior Consultant
Bethany Lewis
Rhiannon is an experienced consultant who has spent the last ten years working in a variety of roles in the cultural and higher education sectors, since the start of her career at Arts Council England.
Senior Consultant
Rhiannon Davies
Lizzie specialises in research, policy and evaluation in the creative industries, with particular expertise in international cultural relations.
Consultant
Lizzie Parker
Poppy is an experienced social researcher and consultant working from London across BOP’s global portfolio of projects.
Consultant
Poppy Lawrence Carr
Bianca is an experienced project manager and mixed-method researcher, with experience in the public and private sector.
Senior Researcher
Bianca Corriette
Laura is a Senior Researcher with over 20 years of experience across the cultural sector as an artist, creative producer and researcher.
Senior Researcher
Laura Caldow
Matthias is a researcher with experience in data-driven analysis and mapping of cities and the cultural economy.
Researcher
Matthias Gutheil
Yasmeen is an interdisciplinary, mixed methods researcher with a background in economic development, media and technology ethics, and the cultural economy.
Researcher
Yasmeen Safaie
Genevieve is Relationship Manager of the World Cities Culture Forum.
Relationship Manager, WCCF
Genevieve Marciniak
Alex leads on cultural destinations and regeneration for BOP. He has more than fifteen years of experience of working with local authorities, national agencies and cultural organisations.
Associate Director
Alex Homfray
Dr. Marina Guo is a cultural entrepreneur, researcher and strategist based in Shanghai and Toronto.
Associate Director
Marina Guo
Barbara is an Associate Director at BOP with expertise in broadcasting and in a wide spectrum of the arts and creative industries.
Associate Director
Barbara McKissack
Paul Kirkman has 25 years top level experience in public policy and cultural sector leadership.
Associate Director
Paul Kirkman
David is an economic development, soft power and international relations specialist, with experience in strategy development and implementation for global cities including London, Moscow, Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing and Mumbai.
Senior Associate
David Adam
Caroline is the Director of Achates, the cultural sector strategy and fundraising consultancy she founded in 2014. Since its creation, Achates has worked with more than 500 arts organisations helping them to build their resilience with integrity.
Senior Associate
Caroline McCormick
Jan is a senior consultant with 20 years’ experience working with cultural sector organisations, creative businesses and government agencies across the European Union and internationally.
Senior Associate
Jan Runge
Donald is an urbanist working across culture, architecture, heritage, business districts, food markets and museums. He advances the regeneration, reinvention, economic and social development of cities and communities.
Senior Associate
Donald Hyslop
Tom is a Senior Associate of BOP. Tom currently leads our work on World Cities and works on a range of innovation and cultural masterplanning projects.
Senior Associate
Tom Campbell
Douglas is an Associate at BOP Consulting, leading on major multi-stakeholder research and evaluation projects in the UK and internationally.
Associate
Douglas Lonie
Alex leads BOP’s consulting operations in Taiwan, working with our clients there: the Ministry of Culture, the Taipei City Government and the Taiwan Land Development Corporation, among others.
Associate
Alex Tang
Rossella has four years experience of working in research and evaluation. She holds particularly strong qualitative research and project management skills.
Associate
Rossella Traverso
Ulrike is a research and evaluation specialist with 15 years of experience of working with arts and cultural organisations in the UK and internationally.
Associate
Ulrike Chouguley
Anupam is an established global expert and trusted adviser with a particular focus on cities, communities and entrepreneurs.
Associate
Anupam Yog
John is an internationally renowned consultant and thinker on creativity.
Associate
John Howkins
Summer’s work focuses on place branding and cultural exchange in an international context.
Associate
Summer Fu
Jo is a highly experienced consultant, specialising in arts, culture and the creative economy. On leaving the Arts Council in 1991 she worked independently before establishing BOP in 1997 with Paul.
Co-Founder and Senior Associate
Josephine Burns
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