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During the past eleven years, Simon has worked with and advised many clients in the public sector (local authorities, Regional Development Agencies and central government departments, such as CLG and BIS) and in the private sector (including local chambers of commerce and national business task forces). He has also worked extensively with voluntary sector bodies and those representing higher education institutions.
Most recently, Simon worked as an Associate Director at the Manchester office of Regeneris Consulting, an independent economic development and regeneration consultancy. Simon joined the company in January 2006 as a Senior Economist, and was promoted in June 2008. Simon was an integral member of teams that won more than £2 million of consultancy work during his five years at the company.
Prior to joining Regeneris, Simon worked as an Economic Policy Officer for the North West Regional Assembly. He advised the Regional Assembly on all matters relating to the economic performance and development of the North West region and its constituent local areas. This included scrutinising the Northwest Regional Development Agency’s annual £500m business support and infrastructure investment programme on behalf of Assembly Members and co-ordinating the Assembly’s response to the draft Regional Economic Strategy.
Simon started out in consultancy as a business economist at Cambridge Econometrics, an independent economic forecasting consultancy. He managed the company’s core UK and European sectoral prospects service reports as well as bespoke project assignments for. He provided regular analysis of recent performance and future prospects for a range of high value sectors across manufacturing (pharmaceuticals and automotive), services (ICT services and professional services) and construction, along with macroeconomc analysis of the UK, European, US and Japanese economies.
