Philippe Ravanas
Professor, Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department
Columbia College Chicago
Philippe Ravanas is a professor in the Arts, Entertainment & Media Management Department of Columbia College in Chicago. A native of France, he is the past vice president of Corporate Communications for Euro Disney in Paris and director of Client Development for Christie’s Auction House in London. He is a contributing author to the third edition of Marketing Culture and the Arts (a book translated in ten languages and used by arts management professionals around the globe) and the co-author of the forthcoming Marketing Planning for the Arts. He is a regular contributor to the International Journal of Arts Management and to the Journal of Cultural Economics. He lectures extensively on subjects such as revenue management, sponsorship, and marketing the arts to families. He has coached several cultural institutions in drafting a marketing plan, including the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the Richmond Art Center, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, Berkeley's Small Press Distribution, Chicago's Famous Door Theatre, Boston's Revels, and the Merrimack Repertory Theatre from Lowell, MA.
He has also provided consulting services to many multinational institutions and corporations, including the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization, the European Parliament, the National Geographic Society, Amazon, Technicolor, RCA, A.C. Nielsen, and General Electric.
He is a musician, playing drums in several bands, and a connoisseur of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright.