Philip Dodd

Dodd is a BBC Radio 3 presenter and journalist.

According to a biographical note:

Philip Dodd has been described in the British newspaper, The Guardian, in 2004 as 'one of the two cleverest analysts of the political/cultural changes of his generation'. The writing he did for the important UK think–tank Demos helped to shape the government's 'Cool Britannia' rebranding of the UK. He has given seminars to the Prime Minister's Policy Unit, as well as to the senior management of key media brands such as the BBC.In 1999, Elle Decoration named him one of the UK's top 5 cultural entrepreneurs. He has worked in and with BBC for 20 years, acting as consultant to the BBC's present creative director.

He was one of the first cultural figures in Britain to recognise the emerging importance of China, taking the ICA to Beijing and Shanghai in 1998, to complement the first visit to China of Tony Blair, and hosting a major Beijing arts and culture season at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1999, where he was Director. He left the ICA at the end of 2004 to become co-founder of 'Made In China' an agency to develop cultural, educational and commercial projects between the UK and China.

He is also creative director of the China Festival 2008. a UK-wide festival devoted to China, and also co-director of CHINA@Manchester, an autumn 2006 festival devoted to contemporary Chinese culture. He advises Chaoyang District, Beijing on its creative industries policy.

According to a BBC biographical note

From 1997-2004, he was Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London where he introduced many innovations, from a writer-in-residence programme, which included Zadie Smith to The Club, a networking agency which supported 500 of London's young creative businesses. In 2004, he left the ICA to found an agency Made in China, to develop cultural and educational projects between China and the UK. He is creative director of China Now, a six month festival devoted to contemporary China taking place in Britain in 2008, and creative advisor to a Shanghai city-wide digital arts festival that will take place in October 2007.

He was published widely, including two influential studies of national identity and a book on art and value. He has also been editor of the cinema magazine 'Sight and Sound' and deputy editor of 'New Statesman'. He is visiting Professor, University of the Arts London and a Fellow of the RSA.