Balliol College, Oxford University

Towns Fund Policy Lead, Cities and Local Growth Unit

Accountable for the delivery of the UK Freeports programme, which is on the GMPP and a personal priority of the PM. Oversee design and deployment of c£5bn of tax reliefs and c7bn of public investment. Freeports are now projected to create more than 250,000 jobs, bringing forwards £25bn of private investment – so far more than £2bn of new investment has come in to our sites.

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Freeports Programme Director

• Recruited the Freeports team, growing from 3 to 28 people, leading and developing a diverse, high-performing team 
• Established and oversaw the delivery model, setting up programme governance and management, influencing resourcing and policy in DIT, BEIS, HMT and others. 
• Set the framework for Freeport delivery and provided resources and support to Freeports for setup, 
• Met all programme milestones including CX’s target of an operational Freeport within 8 months of selection, and getting all 8 English Freeports fully live within 22 months.

Head of Delivery - Freeports

• Led on the Towns Fund policy development, designing the programme iteratively with ministers, completing the business case and prospectus, and landing £3.6bn for the policy outside SR. 
• Led town selection and then delivery, delivering all 101 Town Deals within 18 months, catalysing £15bn of investment into England’s most deprived towns.

Towns Fund Lead, Cities and Local Growth Unit

Senior Policy Advisor - Regeneration and Infrastructure

I oversee the I4ID programme from a technical perspective, having designed it and then led on the proposal development. I4ID is an innovative programme working to promote policy and institutional change on key issue relating to service delivery and inclusive growth, while also fostering changes in practice, behaviour, and institutions in key executive and legislative bodies.

Palladium: Make It Possible

Technical lead, Tanzania Institutions for Inclusive Development Programme

I led on the programme design and proposal development, and am now the Programme Director for the Nepal Economic Policy Incubator, an innovative DFID-funded programme to promote inclusive economic transformation in Nepal. In its first year EPI scored an A+ in its DFID Annual review, and it has contributed already to 4 key pieces of legislation on investment climate and industrial development, to the development and implementation of the Government of Nepal's Special Economic Zone programme, and helped to catalyse the emergence of e-payments and e-commerce in Nepal.

Programme Director, Nepal Economic Policy Incubator

I am a senior manager in the governance practice area, where my responsibilities include project management, technical inputs, and business development. I am also Palladium's lead on Cities and Urban Development, stretching across Palladium's portfolio of currently more than £3bn of programmes

Senior Governance Specialist and Urban Development Lead

• The CIG is a project funded by DFID and implemented by Adam Smith International. It was established in response to a study on the binding constraints to inclusive growth in Nepal, to devise and apply practical solutions to these constraints by brokering technical assistance and expertise. 
• Working for around 60% of my time for the CIG, I have responsibillities for identifying constraints to inclusive growth, assessing drivers, identifying entry points and designing interventions for the CIG
• I am also working to manage a c.£500,000 CIG policy project on tourism, designed to address the constraint of poor destination management, promoting improvements in local governance and service delivery through institutional innovation and the targeted brokering of expertise

Nepal Centre for Inclusive Growth

Programme Advisor and Tourism Project Manager

• Expertise in political economy analysis, politics and the policy process, impact evaluation and complexity theory
• Research and advisory services for policy development, programme design, project management and implementation, review and evaluation
• Responsible for finding, winning and delivering projects, leading and taking part in multidisciplinary teams, meeting individual and group financial targets, and business development

Harry Jones