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Join us during National Productivity Week, 27 April – 1 May, for daily live episodes of the Productivity Puzzles podcast.

Host Bart van Ark will speak with:

  • Philip McCann (Sir Terry Leahy Chair in Urban and Regional Economics, Alliance Manchester Business School)
  • Chander Velu (Associate Professor in Innovation and Economics, University of Cambridge)
  • Diane Coyle (Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge)
  • Duncan Ivison (President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of Manchester)
  • Charlie Mayfield (Chair, Get Britain Working)

Listen to our regular Productivity Puzzles podcast series. Join Bart van Ark as he brings you discussions with leading minds from the UK and abroad about how to improve productivity for almost everything: from healthcare to car manufacturing, at national and regional levels, for business and for your own personal productivity.

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