Professor Abreu is a regional economist, working on local and regional development, labour markets, education and skills, migration, and productivity. She is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Land Economy, and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. She was a Co-I and the lead on skills for the ESRC-funded Productivity Insights Network (PIN). Prior to coming to Cambridge she worked for the Poverty Team at the World Bank office in Jakarta, Indonesia, on policy initiatives to support child nutrition and educational transitions. She was also a policy research fellow at the Cambridge-MIT Institute, working on several projects related to knowledge diffusion and innovation. She has worked as a consultant for the European Commission, the World Bank, the UK’s Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS/BEIS), the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), and the Department for Enterprise, Trade and Investment (DETI) of Northern Ireland.
Catherine Frances
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
Alwyn Spencer
Cabinet Office
Rachel Appiah
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
Jonathan Ashworth
Shadow Cabinet
Sofia Ropek Hewson
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
Stephen Aldridge
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC)
Zoƫ Billingham
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)
Mark Prince
Amazon
Nick King
Henham Strategy
Joe Manning
Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership
Shaun Lowthian
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Dr Koen Jonkers
Joint Research Centre, European Commission
Andrew Lightfoot
Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Jeremy Skinner
Greater London Authority (GLA)
Neil Darwin
Deyton Bell
PAUL CRAWFORD
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS)
Mark Lee
Department for the Economy, Belfast
Dr Zeynep Engin
Data for Policy
Naomi Krieger Carmy
Social Finance Israel
Dr Sandie Dunne
University of Birmingham