Bio
Georgia Nicolau is a Brazilian creative professional, researcher, trained facilitator and consultant in the areas of social organizations, collective action, innovation and culture and arts. She is interested in everything that has to do with a transition to a fairer, egalitarian and cooperative world. Since 2020, she is a fellow at the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity program at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). In 2016, she co-founded the Procomum Institute, a commons-oriented NGO where she is currently director of programs and partnerships and institutional development. Between 2013 and 2016, Georgia was deputy secretary of Creative Economy and Cultural Policy and director of management, entrepreneurship and innovation at the Ministry of Culture of Brazil. She is a founding member of the Global Innovation Gathering Network, which brings together innovators and entrepreneurs from around the world, with a focus on the global south, where she also serves on the supervisory board. She is a co-author of several books and publications about the commons, innovation, digital culture and citizenship and is one of the personalities portrayed in the book Generation Share: The Change-Makers Building the Sharing Economy. She is also an alumnus at the Global Cultural Leadership program from the European Union.