Iain Bennett

Creative Alchemist - The Fifth Sector

Iain is Director of The Fifth Sector, which he founded in 2011. He was Sector Leader for Digital and Creative Industries at Northwest Regional Development Agency (2006-11), leading the development of regional strategy to support development of MediaCityUK. Over the last thirteen years he has led significant projects focusing on cultural and creative-led growth across England, including developing the music strategy for Liverpool City Region and mapping the music sector and wider creative industries in Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. He is a Trustee of UP Projects and a member of the Creative Industries Councils’s Regions & Clusters working group and the Arts & Humanities Advisory Board of Royal Holloway, University of London. He’s a Manc estranged to Liverpool, for reasons of love.