Advisory Board
The International Advisory Board plays a vital role in the STRATEGIES project, providing advice on direction, enhancing links to policy making and professional practice, and ensuring that our work responds directly to the opportunities and challenges facing Europe’s cultural and creative industries. The International Advisory Board’s membership includes academics, game industry experts, transnational trade organisations, as well as experts in climate science, communication, and social action.
Benjamin Abraham
Founder of AfterClimate
Author of Digital Games After Climate Change (2022)
Australia
Minang Acharya
Programme Assistant
Policy Coordination Unit, UN Environment Programme
Kenya
Micha Le Bourhis
Head of Asmodee Research and Game In Lab
France
Alenda Y. Chang
Associate Professor of film and media studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Author of Playing Nature; Ecology in Video Games (2019)
USA
Gabrielle Fauste
Consultant and Teacher
Co-Director of Game in Lab
France
Kishonna Gray
Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studie, The University of Kentucky.
Author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming (2020) and Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice (2018).
USA
Guido Heinecke
Managing Director, Spiel des Jahres
Germany
Yasmin Kafai
Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Author of Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs (2020) and Connected Gaming (2016)
USA
Karol Jałochowski
Chief science journalist for Polityka
Poland
Ann Light
Professor of Design and Creative Technology, School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex.
Co-lead for Creative Practices for Transformative Futures (CreaTures)
UK
Léa Martinez
CSR Project Manager
Asmodee
Susanna Pollack
President of Games for Change
USA
John Stacy
Executive Director, The Game Manufacturers Association
USA
Milica Zec
Head of Creative Strategy, The Sandbox
Co-Creator of Tree VR
USA