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Mike Emmerich

Founding Director

Mike leads our work on investment in cities and has built our practice advising major housing and regeneration projects and innovation district development, including two years of work with Cambridge Biomedical Campus. He also directed our work with the Impact Investing Institute and Lloyds Banking Group to explore how mainstream financial institutions can participate in place-based impact investing and regeneration finance.  

Prior to establishing Metro Dynamics, Mike was Chief Executive of New Economy Manchester, now the core of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. Under his leadership, New Economy initiated the Manchester Independent Economic Review, and implemented its conclusions delivering the distinctive GM approach to transport, enterprise and cultural investment. Alongside Sir Howard Bernstein, Mike was responsible for developing and negotiating the early Greater Manchester devolution deals. 

Mike has also previously worked in the Productivity Team and Enterprise and Growth Unit at HM Treasury and in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, where he advised the Prime Minister on local government, housing and planning. Mike sits on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, the Advisory Board of the International Public Policy Observatory at University College London. He is Chair of Torus, one of the largest Housing Associations in the North of England, and of an early music ensemble, Manchester Baroque.  Mike is a past Member of the Board of the Economic & Social Research Council, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Royal Northern College of Music and Manchester Camerata.  Mike is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Science and the author of Britain’s Cities, Britain’s Future. 

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