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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

Mary O'Mahony

Professor Mary O’Mahony

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

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 Mary O'Mahony

    TPI Research Director

  • Professor Tony Venables

    TPI Co Investigator

  • 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 Nikolay Mehandjiev

    Professor of Enterprise Information Systems

  • Professor Stephen Roper

    ERC Director

Executive Team

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

  • Professor Mary O'Mahony

    TPI Research Director

  • Professor Tony Venables

    TPI Co Investigator

  • Nicola Pike

    TPI Engagement and Impact Director

  • Charlotte Jones

    TPI Head of Operations

  • Professor Jagjit Chadha

    NIESR Director

  • Professor Diane Coyle

    Bennett Professor of Public Policy

  • Professor Nigel Driffield

    Professor of International Business

  • Professor Kieron Flanagan

    Professor of Science and Technology Policy

  • Professor Damian Grimshaw

    Professor of Employment Studies

  • Professor Andrew Henley

    Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics

  • Professor Jason Heyes

    Associate Dean for Impact and Engagement

  • Professor Philip McCann

    Chair of Urban and Regional Economics

  • Professor Nikolay Mehandjiev

    Professor of Enterprise Information Systems

  • Professor Raquel Ortega-Argilés

    Director of TPI's Productivity Lab

  • Professor Adrian Pabst

    NIESR Deputy Director

  • Professor Jonatan Pinkse

    Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Professor Rebecca Riley

    Professor of Practice

  • Professor Stephen Roper

    Professor of Enterprise Information Systems

  • 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

  • Tera Allas

    Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey

  • Dame Kate Barker

    UK government advisor

  • Kate Bell

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

  • Fiona Devine

    Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester

  • Dr. Dan Mawson

    Senior Economic Advisor for UK government

  • Sir Charlie Mayfield

    Chair of Be the Business

  • Clare Reid

    CEO of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry

  • Damien Smith

    Deputy Director of Research for Economics at ESRC

  • Kitty Ussher

    Chief Economist, Institute of Directors

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

Advisory Committee

  • Tera Allas

    Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey

  • Dan Andrews

    Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department

  • Dr. Martin Baily

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

  • Paul Bailey

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

  • Professor Gilbert Cette

    Professor of Economic Policy

  • Jonathan Coppel

    Head of Energy Investment, International Energy Agency

  • Nick Crafts

    Emeritus Professor at The University of Sussex

  • Spencer Dale

    Chief Economist at BP

  • Mike Emmerich

    Founding Director of Metro-Dynamics

  • Irene Graham

    CEO of the ScaleUp Institute

  • Professor Lynda Gratton

    Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour

  • Professor Gerard Hodgkinson

    Professor of Strategic Management and Behaviour Science

  • 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

  • Dr. Geeta Nathan

    Head of Economics and Insights at Innovate UK

  • Professor Andrew Oswald

    Professor of Economics and Behaviour Science

  • Professor Sunita Sah

    Professor of Management Studies

  • Professor Maria Savona

    Professor of Economics of Innovation

  • Ian Stewart

    Partner and Chief Economist at Deloitte

  • Alison Stuart

    Agent for the North West at the Bank of England

  • Professor Chad Syverson

    George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor of Economics

  • Linda Timson

    Deputy Director of HM Treasury

  • Alexandra Tsevetkova

    Lab Lead, Spatial Productivity Lab OECDat

  • Professor Reinhilde Veugelers

    Professor of Management, Strategy and Innovation

  • Professor Niko Wolf

    Professor of Economics

Productivity Commission

  • Professor Alan Barrett

    CEO of the Economic and Social Research Institute

  • Professor Gillian Bristow

    Professor in Economic Geography

  • Professor Jagjit Chadha

    NIESR Director

  • 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

  • Mike Keoghan

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

  • 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

  • Professor Bart van Ark

    TPI Managing Director

Opportunities

Productivity in Practice Fellowship

The Productivity Institute is seeking to appoint 2 Fellows (0.6 FTE – full-time), for 3-6 months under its Productivity in Practice Fellowship Programme. ​​​​​​​

The successful candidate will work on developing firm level productivity research by working with Be The Business – an organisation focused on helping UK SME businesses with their productivity.

Closing date: 12/06/23

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