Biography
Martin Dawson is the Head of Unit for Media in the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, responsible for Creative Europe funding of cinema, series, video games, VR and news media. Previously was deputy Head of Unit for Audiovisual Industry and Media Support Programmes in the European Commission. He has played a leading role in the Media and Audiovisual Action Plan, annual Creative Europe MEDIA work programmes, the interim evaluation of CREA, monitoring market trends through the Media Outlook report, building a carbon calculator for audiovisual and preparing the successor programme, AgoraEU.
Previously, Martin had a varied career in EU external relations and enlargement, working with the Maghreb and Mashrek countries, the Czech Republic, Turkey and North Macedonia.











