Rob is a Director in Grant Thornton’s public services advisory team and leads their work on economic development and growth.

Rob brings significant experience in programme and policy review, economic impact assessment and appraisal, strategy development and data analysis. This includes major projects for Central Government such as leading Grant Thornton’s work as part of the Towns Fund Delivery Partner as well as many varied assignments for local government and sub-regional bodies from developing devolution deals to drafting local economic strategies to preparing HM Treasury compliant business cases for major investment projects and programmes.

Rob brings particular expertise in the analysis of large quantitative and qualitative data with the explicit purpose of deriving intelligent insight to make the case for investment, inform service delivery and drive performance improvement.  As part of this, over the past three years Rob has been giving increasing focus to place based growth and understanding the data and metrics that really matter.