Will Page

Who is Will Page?

Will Page is the Director of Economics at Spotify, a Swedish based digital music service. To date, Spotify has launched in 20 countries around the world and recently announced that it has reached 24 million active users and over 6 million paying subscribers.

For six years he was the Chief Economist at the PRS for Music, a non-profit collection society representing writers, composers and music publishers in the UK.

Page graduated with an MSc in Economics at the University of Edinburgh in 2002. His Masters thesis ‘Germany's Mezzogiorno Revisited’ looked at the problems facing East Germany ten years after German Reunification. The paper was published by Deutsche Bank in 2003, and cited in 2005 by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times.

He previously worked for the UK Government Economic Service at the Scottish Executive working for the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser and Department of Finance. He contributed to the Scottish Executive Economic Discussion Paper Series with a publication on ‘Infrastructure Investment & Economic Growth’.

During this period, he established a moonlighting career in music, writing for the award winning music publication Straight No Chaser, interviewing the BBC Awards for world music 2004 winner Rokia Traore, and working with the Brazilian composer Eumir Deodato on the North Sea Jazz Festival performances in 2003 and 2008.