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Our nine Productivity Forums are spread across the UK acting as regional ambassadors for the importance of productivity. The Investment in Productive Places campaign helps places understand how their resources can be used more effectively.

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    Management Team

    Jun Du

    Professor Jun Du

    TPI Managing Director and Professor of Economics, Alliance Manchester Business School

    Mary O'Mahony

    Professor Mary O’Mahony

    TPI Research Director and Professor of Applied Economics, King’s Business School

    Andy Westwood

    Professor Andy Westwood

    Policy Director, The Productivity Institute and Professor of Public Policy, Government and Business at The University of Manchester

    Lydia Wicaksono

    Head of Operation at The Productivity Institute

    TPI Central Services
    Operations and Finance

    • Lydia Wicaksono

      Head of Operations

    • Michael Livesey

      Institute & Fellowship Manager

    • Sophie Turban

      Project Coordinator (Research)

    • Lisa Sumner

      Senior Research Finance Officer

    • Georgia Sewart

      Institute Graduate Intern

    External Engagement & Communications

    Governing Council

    • Kate Barker (Chair)

      UK government advisor

    • Tera Allas

      Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company

    • Kate Bell

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

    • Fiona Devine

      Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester

    • Louise Hellem

      Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry

    • Dan Mawson

      Senior Economic Advisor for UK government

    • Charlie Mayfield

      Chair of Be the Business

    • Damien Smith

      Deputy Director of Research for Economics at Economic and Social Research Council

    • Bart van Ark

      TPI Managing Director

    • Anton Muscatelli

      President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

    Advisory Committee

    • Tera Allas (Chair)

      Senior Advisor at McKinsey & Company

    • Dan Andrews

      Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department

    • Martin Baily

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

    • Gilbert Cette

      Professor of Economic Policy at NEOMA Business School

    • Mike Emmerich

      Founding Director of Metro-Dynamics

    • Irene Graham

      CEO of the ScaleUp Institute

    • Gerard Hodgkinson

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

    • Mark Hughes

      CEO of The Growth Company

    • Anthony Impey

      CEO of Be the Business

    • Lawrence Jeff Johnson

      Deputy Director, Research at the International Labour Organization

    • Maria Savona

      Professor of Economics of Innovation

    • Chad Syverson

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

    • Rudiger Ahrend

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

    • Reinhilde Veugelers

      Professor of Management, Strategy and Innovation at KU Leuven

    • Niko Wolf

      Professor of Economics at Humboldt University

    • David Bowkett

      Head of Productivity and Growth, Economics and Social Research Council

    • Ross Archer

      Director – Public Policy, AICPA & CIMA

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