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Mike May-Gillings Manager, Local Economy Services BSc (Bath), MSc (York) |
Mike May-Gillings has responsibility for CE's local economy work, developing and applying tailored versions of the Local Economy Forecasting Model (LEFM) for specific local areas, and providing analysis and commentary reviewing the prospects for local economies. He has recently overseen the successful development of a major upgrading of the LEFM software. He is the primary contact point for CE's LEFM support service and has led a number of tailored training seminars in the use of LEFM for local economy analysis and forecasting, both at CE and at clients' offices.
He has wide experience of managing projects for a variety of local organisations, including LSCs, local authorities and Regional Development Agencies. Recent projects he has managed include: an examination of how economic development, local demographic trends, and the demand and availability of housing influence one another for Southwark Borough Council; analysis and forecasts of economic development prospects to inform a county council's development strategy; developing alternative economic scenarios to inform the development of the Liverpool City Region Development Plan; analysis of international trade statistics for an RDA to inform its trade strategy; and a local economic multiplier study using LEFM to identify the impact of a regional television company on the local economy.
He also manages a number of other projects involving the use and application of quantitative techniques to large, disaggregated data sets to interpret historical experience, to simulate the impact of alternative policy options and for forecasting. Other responsibilities include contributing to CE's regular Industry and the British Economy and Regional Economic Prospects publications.
He obtained an Upper Second BSc (hons) in Economics with Econometrics from the University of Bath, having spent the previous year as a placement student at Cambridge Econometrics, and then took an MSc in Project Analysis, Finance and Investment in the Department of Economics at the University of York.
Image scanned from photograph taken by Dorothy Hahn
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