Author, Speaker, Founder & Executive
About
Shain Shapiro, PhD is one of the world’s leading music and cultural policy thinkers. He is the founder and chairman of economics consultancy Sound Diplomacy, founder and director of the global nonprofit Center for Music Ecosystems and author of This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better. Shain has pioneered the work of music cities and music ecosystem policy, where music is written into how cities and places plan and invest in their future.
This Must Be The Place
How Music Can Make Your City Better
This Must Be The Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.
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Writing
Shain is an accomplished writer, having begun his career as a music journalist. He is a frequent contributor to Forbes and many other publications.
