Author, Speaker, Founder & Executive
About
Shain Shapiro, PhD is one of the world's leading thinkers on music's role in solving global problems. He is the author of How Music Can Save the World (2027) and This Must Be The Place: How Music Can Make Your City Better (2023), founder and chairman of Sound Diplomacy, founder and executive director of the Center for Music Ecosystems and founder of the Music Economy Development Initiative. His work has influenced how more than 175 cities and places invest in music — and now asks a bigger question: what else could music fix, if we let it?
This Must Be The Place
How Music Can Make Your City Better
This Must Be The Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the powerful impact music can have on how cities are developed, built, managed and governed.
Out now!
Writing
Shain is an accomplished writer, having begun his career as a music journalist. He is a frequent contributor to Forbes and many other publications.
Get Involved
How do you think music can save the world? Is there someone you know who is using music to address and solve big global problems? Shain wants to hear from you.
Shain’s goal is to create the world’s largest bank of examples demonstrating how music can save the world. If you know of someone, or an organisation, worth celebrating and profiling, please get in touch.
