www.MikeDuignan.comFor the past 10+ years I have been researching, analysing, commentating, writing, publishing, and teaching on the economics and social impacts of staging major events, with the view to improve delivery and leave a sustainable legacy for the communities, people and places that play host. As Director of Research, Intelligence, Education at Trivandi, and as a Professeur at the Sorbonne, University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne), my aim is to connect and collaborate with world leading scholars/scholarship with practitioners/practical knowledge to generate cutting edge research, evidence-based intelligence, and a new international educational program to advance how we think about and do major events - to continually improve delivery and leave a sustainable legacy. Since 2021, I have served as the Editor-in-Chief of Event Management Journal (EMJ), the leading international academic journal for the study of events, based in New York, USA. With a team of 5 deputy editors, 10+ industry thought leaders, over 300+ international scholars, and 13 Regional Editors spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia Oceania, North and South America. My ambition by 2030 is to position EMJ as one of the leading sociological and business journals in the world and bring together the eclectic disciplinary interests that make up this fascinating and important field of research. Previously, I have been a tenured professor at the University of Central Florida and held the position of Reader and Head of Department at the University of Surrey, where I was also Director of the UK Olympic Studies Centre, responsible for leading major events research and education. For the past 5 years I have also been part of the Centre for Science and Policy’s network of trusted international scholars who provide policy advice to governmental and non-governmental organizations, based at the University of Cambridge (UK).To help disseminate this knowledge I have given keynotes and talks around the world; I host the ‘InsideEvents’ podcast with audio and video interviews to examine contemporary topics and issues in events; I write short thought pieces in ‘The Conversation’ and reports for leading agencies like the United Nations; and I often provide media commentary around the economics and social implications of hosting events in publications like Les Echoes to The Guardian and I have given interviews and debated live on radio and TV from the BBC to a one-hour debate on Sky News on the global events’ response to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.