James Gilmour
Senior Consultant
James is an economic geographer who deploys robust analytical insights to advance devolution, infrastructure and housing policy.
He translates theory into practice, synthesising contemporary knowledge from the policy and academic sphere into real world implementation, alongside local government, Combined Authorities and the private sector. James is also an expert GIS analyst, working with lower-level spatial data to inform interventions grounded in local need and opportunity. Recently, he has worked on increasing housing investment in the Liverpool City Region, on funding infrastructure in Birmingham and on strengthening pan-Northern collaboration through the Convention of the North.
James is based in our Manchester office, and is committed to giving all of our places the tools they need to grow and thrive. He originally joined Metro Dynamics as an intern following his Masters degree in Public Policy and Governance at the University of Manchester, where he wrote his dissertation on sub-national devolution in the UK. He maintains a keen personal and professional interest in city economies, urban design and housing reform and writes in his spare time on these topics for the Manchester Mill, a regional newspaper.