David Barrie

David Barrie is a social entrepreneur and producer and director of media and urban development projects and programmes. Barrie has founded and grown several for-profit and non-profit ventures, linked to urban development, urban renewal and building new communities and markets at the most local level. He has created, advised and delivered projects in the United Kingdom, Russia, China, Canada and Central Europe valued at over £35m and credited with leveraging over £0.5bn of new investment into towns, cities and their neighborhoods. His work has been featured by The New York Times, China Daily, The Sunday Times and Monocle and won several prominent awards, including Future Minds European Award for Innovation, Grand Prix Regeneration & Renewal & RIBA CABE Public Space. Since 1986, Barrie has also produced and directed documentary television for BBC Television, Channel 4, National Geographic Channel and CNN, including documentary films on the historical story behind The King's Speech, the life of Wallis Simpson, art of J.M.W. Turner, death of rock star Michael Hutchence, interviews with Jean-Luc Godard, Alexander McQueen and Georg Baselitz and productions such as The Late Show.