Matt Clayson is Director of the Detroit Creative Corridor Center. In this capacity, Matt works with numerous stakeholders, practitioners and community leaders to develop a series of strategies targeted towards growing Detroit’s creative economy. Prior to his work at the DC3, Matt was an attorney with interactive promotion company ePrize, LLC, counseling a portfolio of Fortune 500 clients on legal and strategic issues related to global interactive marketing initiatives. He also served as a Project Manager for the Tourism Economic Development Council, developing and managing a multi-media public information campaign that strengthened Detroit’s image in preparation for Super Bowl XL. Matt is an active member of the Detroit community.

He is a drafter of the Detroit Declaration and he is a founding member of Michigan Children’s Leadership Council. He serves on the boards for the Southwest Detroit Business Association and for Artserve Michigan. He has also served on numerous advisory boards and taskforces including for Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, the Detroit Renaissance “Road to Renaissance” creative economy work group, the 2009 Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce Mackinac Advisory Committee, The Center for Michigan’s “Michigan’s Defining Moment” Campaign, Detroit Synergy and the Detroit Yacht Club.

Matt has been a featured speaker and educator on the topics of entrepreneurship in the creative industries for the U.S. Department of State, the Aspen Institute, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Michigan State University Prima Civitas Foundation, The American Assembly, the German Marshall Fund and others. Matt, a licensed attorney in the State of Michigan, earned his Juris Doctor from Wayne State University in Detroit. He earned dual Bachelor of Arts degrees in International Relations and Political Theory from Michigan State University and completed coursework focusing on the political and economic structures of the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation at the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium.

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