Frédéric C. Godart is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. A former fellow of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in France, he holds an M.Phil. in social and political sciences from the University of Cambridge as well as an M.S. in management from Sciences Po in Paris. He is interested in the structure and dynamics of creative markets, the development of design as a significant economic activity, and the sociology of meaning. For three years he was a Research and Business Analyst for McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice.