Vanessa Bastian

Vanessa Bastian has worked within the music industry for almost 20 years both within major record companies, and across academic research and journalism.

After working at EMI and representing its interests on the IFPI Market Research Committee, she then represented Warner Music International on the GRid (Global Release Identifier) and MI3P (Music Industry Integrated Identifier Project) projects before getting involved in DDEX. Vanessa represented Warner’s interest at DDEX Board level and when moving to Universal Music International as Director of Digital Operations, Vanessa continued to do so for both UMGI and UMG US.

In 2010 she stepped in to assist the DDEX Secretariat to run the 14th Plenary Meeting in New York and is now delighted to be permanently part of the Secretariat.