Elena Raevskikh

oecdcogito.blog — Dr. Elena Raevskikh is a Russian-French public policy researcher specialising in evidence-informed governance, institutional intelligence, and long-term public value. She is Head of the Research and Analysis Unit at the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, where she leads CultureSTATS-AD, the MENA region's pioneering programme for culture research, measurement, and evidence-informed policymaking.

World Economic Forum — In the era of AI, culture will play an increasingly important role as a strategic asset, by strengthening the capacity of societies to govern complexity.

Nature — Museums and heritage function as economic and social infrastructure, support long-term economic stability, wellbeing, and resilience, yet remain undervalued by GDP-centric metrics. The core challenge is how existing measurement systems can recognize the culture dividend they generate.

agenziacult.it — Dalla filantropia all'economia d'impatto, la cultura entra nel linguaggio della finanza con nuovi strumenti capaci di generare valore economico, sociale e ambientale. Il Cultural Capital Financing ridisegna il rapporto tra istituzioni culturali, tecnologia e investitori, aprendo la strada a un ecosi

World Economic Forum — 博物馆应探索新型融资模式，从而像高社会影响力的企业那样高效运作，并在多元领域创造复合价值。

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World Economic Forum — 博物館や文化施設の長期的な持続可能性を確保する上で、その展示物と同じくらい革新的な資金調達モデルが重要です。新たな枠組み「文化資本ファイナンス」を構想することにより、公的資金と民間投資、デジタルイノベーション、社会的起業の融合が可能となるでしょう。

Nature — In light of MONDIACULT 2025 in Barcelona and the launch of the 2025 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics, experts and policymakers reflected on the evolution of cultural policies, reaffirming culture's vital role in fostering diversity, creativity, and sustainable development.

Springer Nature — Recent discussions on the advancement of cultural measurement have demonstrated growing interest in our experience of conceptualizing the approach to culture data collection and culture statistics in Abu Dhabi.

Springer Nature — Short video that helps immersion into the subject of my paper Anticipating the "Bilbao effect": Transformations of the city of Arles before the opening of the Luma Foundation (Cities, 2018)

Springer Nature — These are the proceedings of the working group on "Development of Cultural Indicators," held during the "Rethinking Cultural Measurement" workshop, organized with UNESCO as part of the Culture Summit Abu Dhabi 2025.

culturaleconomics.org — The intersection between art, innovation, and economics is often overlooked, despite the increasingly porous borders between these fields. Based on empirical observations of Middle Eastern and European contexts, the article...

World Economic Forum — Biophilic businesses ground their practices in nature, heritage, and social ties to offer a different vision of sustainability

Nature — This exploratory study offers an analysis of Abu Dhabi's living heritage ecosystem. It borrows from approaches predominantly used in the healthcare field and develops a value-based framework that provides a broader understanding of heritage and its integration into innovation, economic development, and societal change in Abu Dhabi.

Springer Nature — Inspired by our recent OECD collaboration: culture is infrastructure, not just a sector. As AI reshapes policymaking, the priority is measuring long-term public value - not generating more data. Stronger cultural indicators advance SDGs, ESGs, and cross-sector policy impact.