Angela Chan is Head of Inclusive Futures for CoStar, the new national lab for creative technology. As Professor of Creative Industries with StoryFutures immersive lab at Royal Holloway, University of London, her research focuses on inclusive innovation and creative technology. She is a passionate advocate for equity diversity and inclusion in technology and developing AI tools to democratise access to creativity.
Angela has worked across the UK television industry for twenty-five years as a filmmaker, executive producer and in commissioning roles. Most recently she was Head of Creative Diversity for C4 and has held similar roles at the BBC where her role was to ensure diverse representation in the broadcasters’ content, support independent creative businesses, promote talent from under-represented geoups.
In addition, she sits on a number of advisory boards including the British Council Arts and Creative Economy Group, the Sir Lenny Henry Media Centre and Natwest’s Ethnicity Board.
