PRODUCTIVITY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Agent for the North West at the Bank of England
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- CEO of Be the Business
Committees: Management Team, Executive Committee, Executive Team
Research Theme: Social, environmental & technological transitions
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Bart van Ark is an internationally acclaimed economist in the field of international comparative productivity measurement and analysis, innovation and technology, and digital transformation, and his research has cut across the areas of economic growth, development economics, economic history and international economics and business.
From 2008 to 2020, he was Chief Economist and Head of the Economy, Strategy and Finance Center at The Conference Board, a global business research think tank headquartered in New York, where he oversaw the production of widely watched economic indicators and growth forecasts around the globe.
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- Head of Operations
- Member of the Executive Committee
- Finance & Operations
- TPI Head of Operations
Committees: Management Team, Executive Team, Executive Committee
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Charlotte has more than 15 years' experience working in higher education, the majority of which have been managing UK and EU-funded research consortiums at The University of Manchester. During her career, Charlotte has managed research from a variety of disciplines, most recently, The ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD), a UK-based research collaboration working with partners across the world and Dialogue About Radicalisation and Equality (DARE), an H2020 EU-funded research consortium with partners in 13 countries.
Charlotte is also a qualified teacher and worked for six years as a teacher and senior leader at a Manchester primary school.
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- Director of Policy & Public Affairs of the Scottish Council for Development and Industry
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- Deputy Director of Research for Economics at ESRC
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Head of Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department
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- Consult on Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting at NIESR
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- Senior Economic Advisor for UK Government
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- Associate Researcher at the Instituto Valenciano De Investigaciones Económicas
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Head of Economics and Insights at Innovate UK
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- 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
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- General Enquiries
- Institute Administrator
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- Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Distinguished Service Professor of Economics
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- Professor of Strategic Management and Behaviour Science
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- Professor of Economic Policy
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Partner and Chief Economist at Deloitte
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- CEO of the ScaleUp Institute
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- Communications & Engagement Coordinator )
- Communications & Engagement Coordinator / Finance and Operations
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- Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Head of Energy Investment, International Energy Agency
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- Senior Research Finance Officer
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- Head of the Rights, International, Social and Economics Department at the Trades Union Council
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Deputy Director, Research at the International Labour Organization
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Deputy Director of HM Treasury
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- Chief Economist at the CBI
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- Professor of Economics of Innovation
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- CEO of the Growth Company
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- Institute and Fellowship Manager
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Founding Director of Metro - Dynamics
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- Director General, Economic and Social Statistics at the Office for National Statistics
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Engagement and Impact Director
- TPI Engagement and Impact Director
Committees: Management, Executive Team, Executive Committee
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Nicola has more than 20 years' experience in business-to-business communications, marketing and engagement and has worked in a variety of sectors including Financial Services, Higher Education and Professional Services. Throughout her career, Nicola has had a particular focus on partnership marketing (working with some of the world's biggest brands) and technology adoption by distribution channels.
Prior to joining The Productivity Institute Nicola worked closely with Accounting & Finance academics at Alliance Manchester Business School to use their research findings to inform and influence practitioners and policymakers in the ESG, Audit and Corporate Governance space.
Committees: Executive Team
Research Theme: Organisational capital (lead)
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Nigel Driffield's main research interests are economics of international business with a focus on the nexus between firm strategy, such as location decisions, and local responses seeking to influence this in both the home and the host country. He is on several editorial review boards and also works with a number of local and national stakeholders on issues relating to inward investment and economic development.
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- Professor of Enterprise Information Systems
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Head of Strategic and International Analysis at the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy
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- Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Modelling and Forecasting at NIESR
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- Non - Executive Director of HSBC Holdings
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- Professor of Management, Strategy and Innovation
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
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- Chairman of Be the Business
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- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Chief Economist at BP
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- Chairman
- Member of the Advisory Committee
- Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey