Our Team
The Productivity Insights Network core team comprise a number of leading academics and professionals engaged in productivity research from different perspectives. The aim of the Productivity Insights Network is to stimulate new interdisciplinary directions in productivity research and foster engagement with business, intermediaries and policymaking communities.
Directors
| Co-Director | 
Professor Philip McCann (Sheffield) |
Co-Director | 
Professor Tim Vorley (Sheffield) |
Co-Investigators
| WP Leads | 
Professor Colin Mason (Glasgow) |
Education & Skills Lead | 
Dr Maria Abreu (Cambridge) |
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Richard Lewney (Cambridge Econometrics) |
Work & Employment Lead | 
Professor Kirsty Newsome (Sheffield) |
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Professor Andrew Henley (Cardiff) |
Investment Lead | 
Professor Richard Harris (Durham) |
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Johnathan Cook (SQW) |
Infrastructure Lead | 
Professor Iain Docherty (Glasgow) |
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Ben Gardiner (Cambridge Econometrics) |
Innovation & Enterprise Lead | 
Professor Robert Huggins (Cardiff) |
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| Data Director | 
Professor Vania Sena (Essex) |
Governance Lead | 
Professor Gary Dymski (Leeds) |
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| Health, Wellbeing & Early Career Researchers Lead | 
Dr Leaza McSorley (GCU) |
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Management & Support Staff
| NW Manager | Kate Penney (Sheffield) | KE/Comms Officer | Phil Wallace (Sheffield) |
For more information about the team or the work of the Productivity Insights Network you can contact us here.
International Advisory Board
The Productivity Insights Network has a highly experienced and active international Advisory Board chaired by Lord Jim O’Neill providing oversight to the work of the core team and the wider project, as well as ensuring its wider relevance to business, practitioner and policymaking communities.
Board Members
| Lord Jim O’Neill (Chair) | Professor Henri de Groot (Netherlands Socio-Economic Council) | Professor Arthur Grimes (Aus/NZ Productivity Commission) |
| Professor Jonathan Haskell (Imperial) | Professor Sarah Brown (Sheffield/Low Pay Commission) | Mr Andy Williams |
| Dr Douglas Dawson (Liberty Industries Group) | Professor Robert Inklaar (University of Groningen) | Professor Tony Venables CBE, (Oxford University) |
| Professor Sir Alan Wilson (Turing Institute) | Andrew Paterson (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) | Dr Ekkehard Ernst (International Labour Organisation) |
| Jim Bell (ARUP) | Dr Philip Wales (Office for National Statistics) | Dan Hodges (Innovate UK) |
| Dr Joaquim Oliveira-Martins (OECD) | Johanna Cowan (HM Treasury) | Dr Dan Mawson (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) |
| Professor James Wilsdon (PI of Nexus+) | Tony Danker/Dr Melissa Carson (Be the Business) |
For more information about the International Advisory Board or the work of the Productivity Insights Network you can contact us here.
