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SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Adam Yousef - 'The poli
 tical economy of regional planning: challenges and opportunities” - Adam
  Yousef
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Speaker:* Adam Yousef\n*Talk Title:* 'The political economy o
 f regional planning: challenges and opportunities”\n*Time:* 18:00 -19:30
 \n*Location:* Ramsden room\, St Catharine's College\n\nThe seminar series 
 is supported by the Cambridge Political Economy Society and the Economics 
 and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.\n\n*Talk Overview
 :*\nFrom heightened geopolitical uncertainty to an increasingly difficult 
 fiscal and monetary policy environment\, the UK government finds itself na
 vigating multiple challenges simultaneously to achieve its principal econo
 mic mission of greater growth and sustained prosperity. Considerable obsta
 cles to realising this mission include regional inequities and spatial dis
 parities that beset the UK’s economic landscape. In this presentation\, 
 Adam Yousef\, Head of Economics at the Greater London Authority\, will ref
 lect on his role leading the design and delivery of London’s Growth Plan
  while reflecting on his experience engaging multiple tiers of government 
 to ensure a harmonised approach to regional and national economic developm
 ent.\n\n*Speaker Overview:*\nAdam is currently Head of Economics at the Gr
 eater London Authority (GLA). He joined the GLA after over a decade of exp
 erience as a senior economist\, senior policy adviser and senior public se
 rvant in the UK\, Canada\, and Europe. In his current role\, Adam heads th
 e delivery of evidence-based reporting and analysis to better inform the M
 ayor of London’s economic and social programmes\, plays a leading role i
 n the design\, delivery and implementation of policies pertaining to Londo
 n’s economic growth and development\, and leads the Authority’s engage
 ment effort with a broad range of stakeholders such as central government\
 , boroughs\, governmental agencies\, and private industry. He is also a me
 mber of the Strategy Board of Chief Economists and Heads of Profession at 
 the UK’s Government Economic Service.\nPrior to this role\, he led the m
 acroeconomic modelling team of the Government in Canada\, where he oversaw
  the design and delivery of COVID-19 recovery policies for the Province of
  Ontario and its municipalities\, designed the government’s flagship Chi
 ldcare Tax Credit for low-to-middle income Canadian households\, the Low-I
 ncome Families Tax Credit\, and led the effort to simplify and broaden the
  income tax base. He also worked as an economic adviser to the European Co
 mmission as part of his PhD\, where he helped incentivise reform to the EU
 ’s deep and comprehensive free trade agreements with partner countries i
 n the Southern Mediterranean in order to better promote growth and prosper
 ity in the EU’s neighbourhood region under its European Neighbourhood Po
 licy initiative. He is also a member of the Advisory Panel for the Indepen
 dent Commission on UK-EU Relations.\nAdam holds a PhD in Political Economy
  from the University of Cambridge\, a Masters in Economics from the Univer
 sity of Oxford\, and a Bachelors degree in Economics from the London Schoo
 l of Economics and Political Science.\n
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
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