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      UK government advisor

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      Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company

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      Head of the Rights, International, Social and Economics department at the Trades Union Congress

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      Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester

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      Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry

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      President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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      Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company

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      Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department

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      Senior Fellow Emeritus – Economics Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution

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      Professor of Economic Policy at NEOMA Business School

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      Founding Director of Metro-Dynamics

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      CEO of the ScaleUp Institute

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      Professor of Strategic Management and Behaviour Science at The University of Manchester

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      George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago

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      Head of Urban Policy, Public Governance & Territorial Development, OECD

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      Professor of Management, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven

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      Professor of Economics at Humboldt University

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      Director – Public Policy, AICPA & CIMA

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      Professor in Economic Geography at Cardiff University

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      Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the Bennett School of Public Policy

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      Spirit Aerosystems-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Composites Engineering

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      Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Modelling and Forecasting, NIESR

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