Michael Kho Lim’s career trajectory lies at the intersection of industry and academia. He has extensive experience in the management of cultural and creative industries—assuming various leadership roles such as being a film producer, executive director, general manager, and holding creative and managerial positions in content writing and editing for different publications. He is currently affiliated with University of Glasgow. He is the author of Philippine Cinema and the Cultural Economy of Distribution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), co-editor of Re-imagining Creative Cities in Twenty-First Century Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), and co-author of The Media Kit: A Frame-by-Frame Guide to Visual Production (Anvil Publishing, 2008). His research interests include Asian cinema, independent filmmaking, film distribution and exhibition, cultural economy, creative cities/spaces, cultural policy, and the broader area of cultural and creative industries.