About Eliza

Eliza (Erskine) Easton is a creative industries expert who has published more than thirty policy and research papers, including on arts funding in England, research and development, the UK’s export strategy, the changing skills needs of the economy, and the impact of Covid-19 on diversity in the creative industries.

Eliza spent five years as Head of Policy and then Deputy Director of the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre – an £8m Government and AHRC funded research and policy centre, based at Nesta. Prior to this, she was part of the founding team of the Creative Industries Federation (now CreativeUK).

She appears on local and national news to speak about her research, including recently on Ed Miliband’s Reasons to be Cheerful and BBC Front Row.

Eliza sits on the UK Government’s Creative Industries Trade and Investment Board and on the UK Government Climate Charter group for the creative industries, as well as the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group for the Creative Economy. Eliza was a Cambridge University Policy Fellow from 2020-2022, and is now an RSA Fellow and a Research Associate at the Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge. She is a trustee for arts charity Gerry’s Pompeii which preserves the legacy of outsider artist Gerry Dalton. 

Alongside her research work, Eliza writes literary reviews and essays - often about her favourite author, P.G. Wodehouse.

Headshot by Alex Krook