Laudan Nooshin is Professor of Music at City, University London, UK. Her publications include Iranian Classical Music: The Discourses and Practice of Creativity (2015), Music and the Play of Power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (Ed., 2009), The Ethnomusicology of Western Art Music (Ed., 2014) and Voices for Change in the Classical Music Profession: New Ideas for Tackling Inequalities and Exclusions (Associate Editor, with Anna Bull and Christina Scharff, 2023). Laudan is currently a Vice-President of the Royal Musical Association and Chair of the Search Committee, and an Advisory Board member for the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.