Harriet Deacon is a Lecturer at the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM), University of Hull, UK. She does research on intellectual property, the economics of intangible heritage and on AI in the culture sector. Since 2010, she has been a consultant to UNESCO under the 2003 Intangible Heritage Convention, working on major projects including global capacity building, periodic reporting and economic aspects of heritage safeguarding. She has a BA (Hons), University of Cape Town (1989), a PhD in History (Cambridge, 1994) and a MSc in Management of Intellectual Property (London, 2016).