Christine Losecaat

Losecaat is a Dutch national. She was born in Munich, Germany lived in Italy but now resides in London. Her father was the journalist and publisher Heinz van Nouhuys She studied at Queen Mary College, University of London and Henley Business School.

Christine started her career in the advertising industry working for Cream Advertising. She then worked for BMG Entertainment where she was International Marketing Director working on the organisations’ audio visual output for its major international recording artists and projects including Wallace and Gromit and Pingu. While working at BMG she co-produced the first full-length animated feature of Prokofiev's production of Peter and the Wolf. The film won the 1996 Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Children's Program and the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival

From 1997–2001, Losecaat was Managing Director of The British Design Initiative, where she represented commercial design to industry and government and developed the award-winning first directory of commercial design for UK.

She established her consultancy, Little Dipper in 2001 focused on special projects in an international context.

In 2003 she was appointed Design Industry Adviser by DCMS / UK Trade & Investment.[4]

Losecaat was appointed co-producer for Torino World Design Capital 2008.[5] In that capacity she produced the International Design Casa, a series of 10 international exhibitions from 15 participating nations[6] ^] and the first global design policy conference “Shaping the Global Design Agenda’.

She was listed in Design Week's Hot 50 in 2009 as one of 50 most influential people in the design sector.[7]

In 2006, she created the concept of the London Design Embassy with designer Tom Dixon and journalist Marcus Fairs. The London Design Embassy was a pop up VIP club for international buyers and media to meet with leading UK design talent.

London Design Embassies took up residence for the duration of London Design Festival in an empty space with content curated by a leading London designer. In 2006 the London Design Embassy was at the ICA, curated by Tom Dixon and co-produced by Russell Sage. In 2007 it moved to the newly refurbished Royal Festival Hall's top floor and was curated by Ross Lovegrove . In 2008 it took up residency at Somerset House, curated by Jay Osgerby and Ed Barber.

In 2009 Losecaat took the London Design Embassy overseas to Milan and created the British Design Embassy, curated by Sir Paul Smith [8]

Losecaat worked with the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Department for Business and UK Trade & Investment's Olympic Legacy and Olympic Delivery Units to conceive and deliver the UK's international business programme and economic legacy piece during the London 2012 Games.[9]

Throughout 2005–2015 she has been advising the UK government on the international strategy for the Creative Industries helping UK companies win major projects internationally as well as international businesses find a base in the UK. During that time, she established the China Design Taskforce and the Creative Industries High Value Opportunities Task Force.

She was closely involved with the UK business programme at Shanghai Expo 2010, and subsequently chaired UK China Partners a not for profit organisation introducing creative supply chains to Chinese manufacturers.

Losecaat was Client Creative Director for the UK Pavilion at Expo 2015 Milan and the UK Pavilion at Expo 2017 Astana. The Pavilion in Milan has won over 20 international design awards including the prestigious BIE Gold Award for Architecture and Landscape It attracted over 3 million visitors in Milan and has now been re-located to Kew Gardens in London. The Pavilion in Astana won the BIE Silver Award[10] for Best Pavilion in its category.

Losecaat is joint project director for Createch,[11] a new annual summit taking place in London during London Technology Week[12] for the Creative Industries Council. She also advised on the programming of the India-UK Createch Summit 2018[13] which yielded £58m[14] in commercial deals.