HARDISTY JONES ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Gareth Jones MA, MSc, PhD is a Director of HJA, who has been involved in economic development since the early 1990s. He has been a consultancy director since 2003.
Emily is an Assistant Consultant who recently joined Hardisty Jones Associates at the end of 2022. Prior to entering the field of economic development consulting, she completed a BSc degree in Human Geography at Cardiff University.
Isabel Compton is an Assistant Consultant who has worked in economic development since 2021, when she joined Hardisty Jones Associates. Prior to this, she completed a degree in BSc Economics at the University of Sheffield and she is now a full member of the Institute for Economic Development.
Her key areas of experience are in economic research to inform economic strategy and regeneration projects, employment modelling for economic impact assessments and assessing the strategic fit of developments with national and local policy.
Joshua is a Senior Consultant at Hardisty Jones Associates (HJA) with 6 years' experience of all aspects of economic development consulting. Joshua's expertise includes:.
Sarah is a Consultant at Hardisty Jones Associates. She has worked at Hardisty Jones for five years since graduating from the University of Bristol with a Graduate Diploma in Economics.
FIED is a Director of HJA with more than 20 years' experience of all aspects of economic development consulting, having worked widely across the UK. Prior to establishing HJA Stuart enjoyed an 11-year career at DTZ (now Cushman & Wakefield) latterly heading its economic development consulting team in Wales, South West England and the West Midlands.
Stuart has worked for a broad range of clients in the public, private and third sectors, helping them to develop policy and strategy, understand the socio-economic implications of investment and make the case for projects.
Stuart's expertise includes socio-economic analysis in relation to infrastructure, property development and planning policy, economic strategy preparation, economic impact analysis, environmental impact assessment, project appraisal and evaluation. Stuart frequently works in multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary environments. Stuart has served as a Director of the Institute of Economic Development since 2015.