Dr Georgie McClean is the Executive Director of Development and Partnerships at Creative Australia. She oversees research, evaluation, impact measurement, professional development and private investment, including fundraising capability building and new partnership models. She looks for opportunities to extend the public value of the cultural and creative industries with new partners in new ways. 

 Georgie has been a media/ arts leader who has researched and shaped creative industries’ dynamics, programs and policy for 20 years. Formerly the Acting CEO of AFTRS (the Australian Film, Television and Radio School) where she led Strategy and facilitated new thinking about Australian storytelling, industry practices and innovation. She also headed up Strategy and Communications at Screen Australia, and prior to that, was Manager of Policy and Research at Australia’s multicultural public broadcaster SBS.