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John Holden

Associate Vice-President for Major Special Projects at The University of Manchester

Career

John leads on major collaborative projects relating to regional and national government and private, commercial and charitable organisations at The University of Manchester. Previously he worked with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority as Assistant Director for Strategy and Research.