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Andy Westwood
Academic profile

Professor Andy Westwood

Professor of Government Practice and Vice Dean for Social Responsibility at The University of Manchester

Committees: Executive team
Research Theme: Institutions & governance (lead)

Career

Andy Westwood is an expert in further and higher education, science policy and local/regional economic development and has worked regularly as an adviser for the OECD, IMF and the EU and the House of Lords select committee on Economic Affairs and Digital Skills. He is a governor at NIESR and Vice Dean for Social Responsibility in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester. Andy has also worked in the UK government as a political and special adviser and civil servant in a variety of departments.

Research project: The UK Productivity-Governance Puzzle: Are the UK’s Governing Institutions Fit for Purpose in the 21st Century?

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