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About Us: Steering Group
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R M C (Michael) Shields, CBE - Chief
Executive of Manchester: Knowledge Capital
Michael Shields, Chief Executive of Manchester: Knowledge Capital,
has enjoyed a successful and varied career in urban regeneration and the
public sector, spanning over 30 years. As Chief Executive of the Northwest
Development Agency (1998-2003) he was responsible for a wide-ranging regional
remit encompassing the economic, social and environmental regeneration
of the whole of the North West. Previous roles have included Chief Executive
of Trafford Park Development Corporation which transformed Trafford Park
from a rapidly declining, run down industrial complex into one of the
most buoyant and dynamic industrial locations anywhere in the UK; Chief
Executive of Trafford Metropolitan District Council, and Deputy Chief
Executive of Salford City Council, where he played a leading role in launching
the Salford Quays initiative.
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Alan Manning - Regional Secretary
TUC
Alan Manning was born and brought up in Oldham and has worked
for the TUC since 1977. As Regional Secretary, he is the senior representative
of the TUC in the region. Alan currently represents the TUC on a number
of bodies and is a Director of the Mechanics Institute in Manchester.
He is the Vice Chair of the Manchester Industrial Relations Society. He
is also a member of Merseyside Special Investment Fund Partners Ltd and
a member of the Council of Management of the Merseyside, Trades Union,
Community and Unemployed Resource Centre. He is a founder member of the
Board of the North West Development Agency and a member of the Greater
Manchester Learning and Skills Council.
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Anil Ruia OBE, JP - Director, Wrengate
Limited
Anil Ruia, born in Bombay, India is a director at Wrengate Limited,
a privately held business involved in the importation, distribution and
converting of textiles. He has a law degree from King’s College,
London and is a chartered accountant. il is a board member of the North
West Development Agency and The North West Cultural Consortium, The Manchester
Asian Business Forum and The Commonwealth Film Festival together with
a non-executive directorship at Granada Television Limited. In October
2002 was elected President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry
and was awarded an OBE in January 2001 for services to business.
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Robert Hough DL LLB DBA (Hon) Dlitt
- Deputy Chairman, Peel Holdings p.l.c. - Chairman, Liverpool John Lennon
Airport PLC
Robert Hough is a Director and Deputy Chairman of Peel Holdings
p.l.c. - one of the most substantial property investment and development
groups in the UK and owner of The Trafford Centre. He is also non-executive
Deputy Chairman of QA plc and a non-executive Director of Alfred McAlpine
PLC, the Cheshire Building Society, Robert Turley Associates and Shiloh
PLC and Chairman of Century Radio 105 Limited. Robert was the Vice President
of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games and is now Chairman of New East
Manchester Limited, the urban regeneration company responsible for the
physical, social and economic regeneration of a disadvantaged area of
that part of the City. He is also a member of the North West Business
Leadership Team and was its Chairman for nearly four years until December
2003. He is a member of the North West Regional Assembly; a member of
Court of the University of Manchester; a member of the Economic Panel
of the Bank of England North West Agency; a past President of the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
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Councillor Mike Storey CBE - Leader
- Liverpool City Council
Mike Storey is the longest serving Councillor on Liverpool City
Council and became Leader of Council in May 1998. Mike was deputy chair
of the successful Liverpool Capital of Culture team. He is a founder member
of Mersey Partnership, Deputy Chair of the new Liverpool regeneration
company, Liverpool Vision and is a member of the Board of the North West
Development Agency.
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Ruth Turner - Director, Vision 21
An award-winning social entrepreneur, Ruth Turner has spent 11
years working with local communities and engaging socially excluded people.
Previously Chairman (1992-1999) and co-founder of The Big Issue in the
North, Ruth is currently a member of the Invention and Innovation investment
committee for NESTA (the National Endowment for Science, Technology and
the Arts) and a founding director of Vision 21, a social research and
community consultation company. She is a Board member of Sustainability
North West; a member of the Greater Manchester Common Purpose Advisory
Board; a Board member of SURF (Salford University’s sustainable
urban and rural futures organisation) and an advisory group member to
the Salford School for Social Entrepreneurs.
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Dr James Keaton - Chairman, Campus
Ventures Group Ltd; former Director ICI
Dr Keaton spent much of his working life with ICI plc, becoming
Divisional Chairman for the Colours Business and a non-executive Director
appointed to several ICI overseas companies. Since his retirement in 1990,
he has chaired the Trustees of Quarry Bank Mill Trust Ltd and spent eight
years on the National Trust Regional Board. He has been Chairman of Campus
Ventures Group Ltd throughout its period of substantial expansion, Chairman
of MGP (Investment) Management Ltd, and Magna Colours Ltd. He also served
on the Byers Committee for the North West Science & Daresbury Development
Group. James is currently a Member of Council and Senate at the University
of Liverpool, a director of Liverpool University Commercial Enterprises
Ltd and a member of the Planning & Resources Committee. He represents
the North West Business Leadership Team on the Economic and Social Partnership
Group within the North West Regional Assembly, and serves on the Academic
Advisory Board of Bolton Institute.
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Lord Thomas of Macclesfield
Lord Thomas is Chair of the North West Partnership and the East
Manchester Partnership, Chair of Sustainability North West and President
of the International Cooperative Banking Association. He was Chair of
the North West Development Agency from 1998 – 2003 and Managing
Director of the Cooperative Bank from 1988 – 1997. Lord Thomas is
a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the Royal Society of
Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and Companion of the Chartered Institute
of Management and has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Salford,
Manchester Metropolitan University, Universities of Manchester and UMIST
and the University of Central Lancashire.
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Dr Mohammed Ikram Malik MBE
Dr Ikram Malik has been an established and successful Medical
Practitioner in the Pendle area for many years. He has been actively involved
in the Racial Equality Movement and Inter Faith Community activity since
1970. He was Chairman of the Lancashire Association of Racial Equality
Councils (1994-97); Vice Chairman of North West Region – National
Association of Racial Equality Council (1993-96); Chairman of the Burnley
and Pendle Racial Equality Council (1993-96). He was a founder member
of Pendle Inter Faith Group (1992 onwards) and Chairman of Building Bridges
Project (1996 onwards). He is a Chair of Community North West; a Board
Member and Trustee of Voluntary Sector North West and a Steering Board
member of Regional Intelligence Unit North West Development Agency. Dr
Malik is the Vice-President of the Asian Business Federation.
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Professor Sir Martin Harris
Professor Sir Martin Harris was appointed Vice-Chancellor of
the University of Manchester in August 1992, after five years as Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Essex. Before that, he had spent fifteen years at
the University of Salford. He now leads for Universities UK on all matters
related to Health. He has been Chair of the North West Universities Association
from 1999-2001 and in 2002 he was appointed Deputy Chair of the North
West Development Agency. He is an Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College
Cambridge and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Universities
of Essex, Leicester, Lincoln, Salford, Manchester Metropolitan University
and by Queen’s University, Belfast.
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Dr Pauleen Lane - Greater Manchester
Pauleen Lane was elected to Trafford MBC in 1986 for the Old
Trafford area and is currently Deputy Leader and Executive for Environment
and Community Safety. She is also a lecturer in Geotechnics and Computing
at UMIST, Director of English Partnerships and an Audit Commissioner.
Pauleen is a Board Member of the North West Development Agency and a North
West Trustee for a major national charity. She has a degree and doctorate
from Manchester University in Civil Engineering and has worked as a engineer
specialising in bridges and highway structures
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Cllr Richard Leese
Cllr Richard Leese worked as a teacher before moving to Manchester
to take up a post as a youth worker in 1979. He was elected to the City
Council in 1984 and became Deputy Leader from 1990 to 1996 having previously
Chaired the Education Committee (1986-90) and Finance Committee (1990-95).
Rihcrad is a member of the board of the North West Development Agency
and Vice-President of Eurocities. He is heavily involved in regeneration
activity including being on the board of the East Manchester Urban Regeneration
Company.
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Andrew Stunell MP
Andrew Stunell MP has been the MP for Hazel Grove since 1997
and is the Liberal Democrat Chief Whip as well as the front bench Energy
spokesperson and has taken a leading role on the Select Committee on Modernisation,
updating House of Commons procedures. He was a member of Chester City
Council 1979-90, Cheshire County Council 1981-91 (where he was leader
of the Liberal Democrats on the Council for 6 years) and Stockport Council
1994-2002. Andrew was Vice-Chair of the all-party Association of County
Councils in London from 1985 to 1990. From 1989 to 1996 Andrew worked
as Political Secretary of the Association of Liberal Democratic Councillors
(ALDC), heading the organisation, which trains and supports the country's
Liberal Democrat councillors and its large body of campaigners.
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Andy Burnham MP
Andy Burnham MP has been MP for Leigh since June 2001. He is
a former Special Adviser to Chris Smith MP; Parliamentary Officer for
the NHS Confederation, transport journalist and researcher to Tessa Jowell
MP. Andy is a member of Unison, the Co-operative Party and the T&G.
He is a member of the Health Select Committee and has helped secure funding
from the Premier League for investment in grassroots football facilities
as well as helping football supporters set up mutual trusts and take ownership
of clubs. Andy has also developed a scheme to invest lottery money in
school sports facilities.
John Mcguire FCIB
John McGuire is a career banker joining Williams Deacons Bank
in the mid 60’s moving through various customer relationship and
credit roles in the North of England before taking up a senior credit
management position in London with what was then Williams and Glyn’s
Bank. He opened the Swiss office in Zurich for the Royal Bank of Scotland
in the mid 1980’s returning to Manchester in 1987 when appointed
Chief Manager of the then Largest Major Banking Office in Manchester.
He was appointed Director, Corporate Banking for the Royal Bank of Scotland
Group in the North of England and upon the acquisition of National Westminster
Bank in year 2000 has been appointed head of all corporate operations
for the combined group in both the North of England and Midlands. Appointed
Chairman, Corporate Banking, North of England in October 2003. John is
Vice Chair of the CBI; Chair of Marketing Manchester; Chair of Chamber
Business Enterprises Limited; Chair of the Manchester Employer Coalition
and immediate Past President Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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Michael Taylor is the editor
of North West Business Insider and the editorial director of newsco-insider.
He has been a business journalist since 1989, having initially worked
for the entertainment press in Australia. After a long journey through
London working on a variety of magazines covering the TV and film business,
he moved back to his native North West to take up his position as the
editor of Manchester-based business magazine Insider, the winner of the
best magazine title at the Northern Business Journalism Awards in 2001
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