Lauren Davis, a veteran music enterprise legal professional, has been promoted to affiliate chair of New York College’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
Davis joined the institute’s full-time school in 2006, instructing programs on the authorized and enterprise points of the music trade, together with mental property legislation. She has additionally lectured on social entrepreneurship and advancing fairness and inclusion in music. Because the director {of professional} improvement at CDI, she oversees the skilled planning and Senior 12 months Skilled Growth programs for graduating college students.
With 33 years of expertise as a music and leisure legal professional, Davis has represented high-profile recording artists, songwriters, producers, publishers, and music corporations. She has additionally served as the college senator on NYU’s School Council for six years, advocating for school pursuits. (Lauren Davis is Clive Davis’ solely daughter. The trade legend additionally has three sons.)
Nick Sansano, chair of the Clive Davis Institute, praised Davis for her unwavering assist and inspiration to college students for the reason that institute’s inception.
“Her music enterprise and authorized experience, and her tutorial deal with coverage, rights advocacy, and gender fairness within the music trade has influenced and directed the skilled lives of so a lot of our college students and alumni,” he stated. “Her willingness to tackle the function of Affiliate Chair, deepening her contribution to the event of our curriculum and mission, is a large win for our program.”
Davis expressed her pleasure about her new function, stating it has been a privilege to show and put together future trade leaders over the previous 18 years, including that she’s “excited to roll up my sleeves, work with Nick Sansano as chair, and assist steer the Clive Davis Institute’s development and enlargement within the years forward.”
Named after the long-lasting music government, this system presents a particular BFA that blends enterprise, artistic and mental exploration as a part of NYU’s Tisch Faculty of the Arts. The CDI marked its twentieth anniversary earlier this yr and is a fixture in Billboard‘s annual checklist of prime music enterprise colleges.
