Felipe Buitrago is consultant of the Division of Cultural Affairs, Solidarity and Creativity at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where he leads the Cultural and Creative Economy Lab. For over eleven years he has worked in Orange Economy development from several angles: Colombian Ministry of Culture, British Council, Ibero-American Observatory of Copyright (ODAI), independent consultant and university professor. His experiences in more than a dozen countries around the world include research, international negotiations, design and evaluation of policy and development programs. He has collaborated on numerous publications, within which stand “Creative Industries Mapping of Bogotá and Soacha” (2002), “Creative Lebanon” (2009), “A Tanzania for the Creatives” (2009), “A Window to the Valparaiso Creative Economy” (2010), and “The Orange Economy” (2013). He is an economist from Los Andes University (Bogotá), is passionate about history, and holds a masters degree in International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University - SAIS (Washington, DC).