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Glenn (BA, MA, PhD) has 31 years of experience in local and regional skills and labour market policy and analysis. Glenn has held senior roles at Futureskills Scotland, London Development Agency, Centre for Cities, The East of England Development Agency, and Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP.
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As Labour meets in Liverpool, new book warns that devolved institutions have ten years to prove that devolution delivers
As Andy Burnham prepares to address his first Labour Party Conference as Prime Minister, a new book by economic development practitioner Dr Glenn Athey argues that the argument over whether to devolve power is over. The question now is whether the institutions...
Become GREAT at economic development: check out my latest book Prosperity In Every Postcode
This video highlights my latest book launch for Prosperity In Every Postcode: Build Organisations That Turn Devolution Into Economic Development and Growth. In this video, I cover the motivations for writing the book, that England's new devolved institutions have 10...
Do you want to be great at economic development? Stop dreaming and start delivering
If you want to keep the momentum of devolution going and don't want to see powers and resources taken back by Whitehall in 10 years, you will need to be. The UK government has a bad habit - it abolishes the institutions and structures for local economic development...