Greater Manchester Economic Advisory Panel
A new Economic Advisory Panel has been established to provide high level strategic support and expert economic advice and guidance to Greater Manchester, helping drive forward the largest concentration of economic activity in the UK outside the capital. The Panel have been asked to reflect on the radically-changed economic circumstances since the Manchester Independent Economic Review (MIER) and then the Greater Manchester Strategy (GMS) were written, to help advise on the best routes to recovery and sustainable economic growth for Greater Manchester. Its primary purpose is to help drive the polity – local, central government, business – towards the decisions the evidence suggests need to be taken to help drive economic growth. The Panel’s work is also about helping Government understand the value to UK plc of having more than one engine of growth in the economy, why the evidence points strongly to Manchester as one of those engines, and what that means for Government, as well as local public and private partners, in terms of a growth policy that is spatially aware of Manchester and its particular potential to drive growth.
The Panel consists of a small number of internationally-renowned, very senior advisers specifically invited for their expertise and the credibility they bring to Manchester. It is chaired by Jim O’Neill, Chairman of Goldman Sachs Global Asset Management. Its other members are:
- Lewis Atter, Partner, KPMG
- Helen Bailey, Chief Executive, Local Partnerships
- Dr Harry Bush, former Group Director of Economic Regulation, CAA and now part time senior regulatory advisor for KPMG
- Greg Clark, Advisor and Non Executive Chairman, OECD
- Diane Coyle, Managing Director, Enlightenment Economics
- Dan Corry, Director of Economic Consulting, FTI Consulting
- Jonathan Dimson, Partner, McKinsey & Company
- Jonathan Kestenbaum, Chairman & Chief Executive, Five Arrows Investments Ltd
- Henry Overman, Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics
- Vicky Pryce, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting
The findings from the Panel’s first piece of work will be published in early 2012.
