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James Edwards received his doctorate in Ethnomusicology from UCLA in 2015. After working as a visiting scholar at Okinawa International University and an adjunct professor at Lewis & Clark College, he joined SINUS-Institute in 2017. He coordinates the project OpenMusE (https\://www\.openmuse.eu/), which leverages open-access data to support music ecosystems in becoming more competitive, fairer, and more sustainable. Leading research projects for a wide range of institutions has given him an interdisciplinary and policy-oriented perspective on music research.