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Levelling Up expert to address Alliance Manchester Business School

27 May 2022

Chairman of the UK Levelling Up Advisory Council, Andy Haldane, is delivering a Vital Topics lecture at Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) on Thursday, 9 June at 3:15pm

Andy Haldane

In September 2021, Andy Haldane was appointed by the Prime Minister to define and develop the national levelling up strategy – a decade-long moral, social and economic cross-government, cross society programme to spread opportunity and prosperity to all parts of the UK.

The Levelling Up in the United Kingdom white paper was published in February 2022 and sets out a plan of action to spread opportunity more equally across the UK.

In this lecture, Andy Haldane will explore how the White Paper’s ambitious vision and 12 national levelling up missions can now be made a reality in UK towns and cities by 2030.

Biography: Andy Haldane

During his 30 years at the Bank of England, Andy has become a leading expert on monetary and financial stability as one of Britain’s most influential economists and served as a member on the Financial Policy Committee and Monetary Policy Committee. He was Permanent Secretary for Levelling Up at the Cabinet Office from September 2021 to March 2022.

He stepped down from this role in 2021 to join the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) as Chief Executive.

In addition to his contribution to the Bank of England, Andy has led HM Government’s Industrial Strategy Council and in 2009 co-founded Pro Bono Economics, a charity dedicated to using economics to empower the social sector. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine in 2014 and among other positions, is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Academy of Social Sciences and Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Andy is also an Honorary Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School.

Vital Topics lecture

The theme of Andy’s lecture is Levelling up – where next? It will be facilitated by Luke Georghiou, Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management in the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research.

Sponsored by DWF, Vital Topics is the Alliance Manchester Business School’s series of prestigious business lectures, bringing powerful ideas and original thinking to audiences from the Manchester city-region and beyond.