Victoria worked for over 20 years as a finance professional, training with PwC and holding commercial and corporate finance roles with leading media industry businesses. With the urgency for sustainable and systemic change she now works with organisations to develop purpose-led business models. Alongside working with North Star Transition, a not-for-profit Think tank, Victoria is also a Tutor of Creative Business at the National Film and Television School and a Trustee of the Buckinghamshire Food Partnership CIO.

Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists Has Been a Runaway Success. Why Is the Government so Nervous About Expanding It?
In early 2022, Elinor O’Donovan was living in Cork, working part-time as a receptionist, and dedicating the rest of the week to her work as a visual artist. “I was





