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Michela Magas is a designer, entrepreneur and innovation specialist, of Croatian-British nationality, [1] and is the first woman from the Creative Industries to receive the European Woman Innovator of the Year award by the European Commission. [1] [2]
She is the daughter of the architects Olga and Boris Magaš, [3] [4] and was raised in Rijeka, Croatia, where she was educated at Italian elementary and secondary schools, before graduating in design from the Royal College of Art in London. [4]
From 1995 until the end of 2000 she worked at the Financial Times , as a designer, becoming Art Editor. [5]
She is the co-founder, with Peter Russell-Clarke, of the London-based design innovation lab Stromatolite, [6] whose clients include Nike, Nokia and Apple. [4]
She is the founder of Music Tech Fest, [7] [8] and chairs the Industry Commons Foundation. [9]
In December 2019 she was recognised as an "Outstanding Peer Reviewer" by Leonardo, the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. [10]
In 2016 she was awarded Innovation Luminary for Creative Innovation by the European Commission. [11]
Since about 2015, [4] she has lived in Umeå, Sweden, and works nomadically. [5]