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Management Team

Anthony Venables

Professor Tony Venables CBE

TPI Research Director and Professor of Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

Professor Bart Van Ark

Professor Bart van Ark

TPI Managing Director and Principal Investigator and Professor of Productivity Studies at the Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester

Nicola Pike

Nicola Pike

TPI Engagement and Impact Director

Charlotte Jones

Charlotte Jones

TPI Head of Operations

TPI Central Services
External Engagement & Communications

  • Nicola Pike

    Engagement and Impact Director

  • Krystyna Rudzki

    Communications Manager

  • Craig Donaldson

    Business Engagement Lead

  • James Wilson

    Communications & Engagement Coordinator

Finance and Operations

  • Charlotte Jones

    Head of Operations

  • Michael Livesey

    Institute & Fellowship Manager

  • Karina Rojas

    Senior Research Finance Officer

  • Emma Shiels

    Institute Administrator

Executive Team
Executive Committee

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

  • Professor Tony Venables

    TPI Research Director

  • Nicola Pike

    TPI Engagement and Impact Director

  • Charlotte Jones

    TPI Head of Operations

  • Professor Diane Coyle

    Bennett Professor of Public Policy

  • Professor Jagjit Chadha

    NIESR Director

  • Professor Stephen Roper

    ERC Director

  • Professor Nikolay Mehandjiev

    Professor of Enterprise Information Systems

Executive Team

  • Professor Nigel Driffield

    Professor of International Business

  • Professor Jonatan Pinkse

    Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Professor Damian Grimshaw

    Professor of Employment Studies

  • Professor Andrew Henley

    Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics

  • Professor Kieron Flanagan

    Professor of Science and Technology Policy

  • Professor Philip McCann

    Chair of Urban and Regional Economics

  • Professor Adrian Pabst

    NIESR Deputy Director

  • Professor Rebecca Riley

    Professor of Practice

  • Professor John Tsoukalas

    Professor of Economics

  • Professor John Turner

    Professor of Finance and Financial History

  • Professor Chander Velu

    Professor of Innovation and Economics

  • Professor Andy Westwood

    Professor of Government Practice

Governing Council

  • Dame Kate Barker

    UK government advisor

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

  • Sir Charlie Mayfield

    Chair of Be the Business

  • Baroness Ruby McGregor Smith

    UK government advisor

  • Sara Thiam

    CEO of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry

  • Kate Bell

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

  • Tera Allas

    Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey

  • Damien Smith

    Deputy Director of Research for Economics at ESRC

  • Professor Keith Brown

    Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester

  • Dr. Dan Mawson

    Senior Economic Advisor at the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

  • Kitty Ussher

    Chief Economist, Institute of Directors

Advisory Committee

  • Tera Allas

    Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey

  • Professor Gilbert Cette

    Professor of Economic Policy

  • Professor Gerard Hodgkinson

    Professor of Strategic Management and Behaviour Science

  • Professor Andrew Oswald

    Professor of Economics and Behaviour Science

  • Professor Chad Syverson

    George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

  • Dr. Martin Baily

    Senior Fellow Emeritus – Economics Studies, Center on Regulation and Markets

  • Professor Niko Wolf

    Professor of Economics

  • Professor Sunita Sah

    Professor of Management Studies

  • Professor Maria Savona

    Professor of Economics of Innovation

  • Professor Lynda Gratton

    Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour

  • Professor Reinhilde Veugelers

    Professor of Management, Strategy and Innovation

  • Dan Andrews

    Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department

  • Paul Bailey

    Head of Strategic and international analysis at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy

  • Jonathan Coppel

    Head of Energy Investment, International Energy Agency

  • Lawrence Jeff Johnson

    Deputy Director, Research at the International Labour Organization

  • Dr. Geeta Nathan

    Head of Economics and Insights at Innovate UK

  • Alison Stuart

    Agent for the North West at the Bank of England

  • Spencer Dale

    Chief Economist at BP

  • Mike Emmerich

    Founding Director of Metro-Dynamics

  • Irene Graham

    CEO of the ScaleUp Institute

  • Anthony Impey

    CEO of Be the Business

  • Rain Newton-Smith

    Chief Economist at the Confederation of British Industry

  • Mark Hughes

    CEO of The Growth Company

  • Linda Timson

    Deputy Director of HM Treasury

  • Nick Crafts

    Emeritus Professor at The University of Sussex

  • Ian Stewart

    Partner and Chief Economist at Deloitte

  • Alexandra Tsevetkova

    Lab Lead, Spatial Productivity Lab OECDat

Productivity Commission

  • Professor Jagjit Chadha

    NIESR Director

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

  • Professor Alan Barrett

    CEO of the Economic and Social Research Institute

  • Professor Gillian Bristow

    Professor in Economic Geography

  • Professor Diane Coyle

    Bennett Professor of Public Policy

  • Professor Eileen Harkin-Jones

    Spirit Aerosystems-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Composites Engineering

  • Dawn Holland

    Consult on macroeconomic modelling and forecasting at NIESR

  • Rachel Lomax

    Non-executive Director of HSBC Holdings

  • Paul Mortimer-Lee

    Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Modelling and Forecasting at NIESR

  • Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli

    Principal of The University of Glasgow

  • Professor Adrian Pabst

    NIESR Deputy Director

  • Dr. Dirk Pilat

    Associate Researcher at the Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas

  • Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides

    Regius Professor of Economics

  • Professor Tony Venables

    TPI Research Director

  • Professor Jackie Wahba

    Professor of Economics

  • Professor Stian Westlake

    CEO of the Royal Statistical Society

  • Professor Andy Westwood

    Professor of Government Practice

  • Professor Cecilia Wong

    Professor of Spatial Planning

  • Mike Keoghan

    Director General, Economic and Social Statistics at the Office for National Statistics

Opportunities

Research Assistant working with TPI’s Managing Director

We are seeking a Research Assistant working 0.5 FTE to support Bart van Ark in research and project management. The post will either be in Manchester or virtual (with frequent meeting at the Institute’s HQ in Manchester/meetings with the Director in London). The job will include literature reviews, data mining and analysis, writing support, preparation of slide decks for presentations, and undertaking background research for the monthly podcast series Productivity Puzzles.

Applications close 5 February 2023. For more information and to apply, visit w4mpjobs.org

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Research Associate – Skill, digitisation and productivity in UK frontier firms

We’re seeking Postdoctoral Research Associate to work full-time on a 24-month project entitled Skill, digitalisation and productivity in UK frontier firms focusing on original data collection and qualitative research in a sample of companies in leading R&D sectors. The post is offered by our partner, King’s College London.

The project will investigate three questions: i) how are firms adapting skill and innovation strategies to harness digital technologies (DTs) for productivity growth?; ii) how do DT-induced changes in collaborations with external organisations contribute to skill, innovation and productivity gains?; and iii) what are the automation and augmentation effects of DTs, and how are they distributed within the firm?

Applications close 15 February. For more information and to apply, visit KCL’s job site.

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