Andrew Jaspan has more than 30 years' experience at the forefront of digital and print media. He has edited major broadsheet newspapers in the UK and Australia and is the Founder of The Conversation, Australia’s largest independent news and commentary site. Andrew has also held a range of non-executive, consulting and academic roles with organisations including The NZ Herald, Liberation (Paris), RMIT University’s Global Cities Institute, and Senior Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne's Faculty of Engineering.Andrew’s leadership over seven years with The Conversation resulted in the establishment of an entirely new collaborative media platform. Through The Conversation, Andrew pioneered new digital information channels for academic knowledge under a Creative Commons licence; new collaborative frameworks for academic institutions globally and created new non-advertising funding models for news delivery. Through his efforts and fund raising, The Conversation is now operating in eight countries including Australia, Africa, US, UK, France, Canada, Indonesia and Spain. And employs nearly 150 worldwide.Previously Andrew edited newspapers including The Observer (London), Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh), The Scotsman, The Sunday Herald (Glasgow), The Melbourne Age and The Sunday Age (Australia); was Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Big Issue (London) and worked at The Times and The Sunday Times (London). In April 2017, Andrew began work on developing The Global Academy, based at RMIT University with the support of Melbourne, Deakin, Western Sydney and RMIT universities. Andrew is Professorial Fellow in School of Media and Communication, RMIT, Melbourne; Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Engineering and Infrastructure, University of Melbourne. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Politics and Modern History from the University of Manchester. He is a graduate of the 20:20 Management Course run by UK's Common Purpose.