Elizabeth W. Scott joins Create NSW as director of investment and engagement

Elizabeth W. Scott begins at Create NSW as executive director of investment and engagement on Wednesday, August 1.

She is a global arts and culture policy specialist with over 25 years of experience advising cultural organisations across the USA, UK and Australia.

She currently serves as board treasurer of the US artists’ peak body, Fractured Atlas, and as an international councillor for UK peak body, Creative Industries Federation.

Scott joins Create NSW from New York City, where she served as chief media & digital officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,.

She also counselled leading arts and cultural organisations and digital start-ups as an industry advisor and managed Major League Baseball’s film and television production and licensing businesses.

An international thought leader on contemporary issues facing the cultural sector, she has been a featured speaker at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, MIT, the University of Chicago, each of the peak body conferences of the US theatre, orchestra and dance industries, and the IMZ International Music + Media Conference in Berlin.

She is also an accomplished performing artist who freelances as a conductor with opera companies, choruses and festivals.

Scott replaces Michael Brealey who resigned in March.