Neil McInroy is a Senior Fellow for the Global Advancement of Community Wealth Building at The Democracy Collaborative – A USA based Research and Development lab. Neil is an economics of place specialist, policy thinker, practitioner and organisational leader, and over the last 25 years has worked extensively across UK, USA and internationally (including Australia and New Zealand), and has been commissioned and collaborated with a range of international, national, local governments and agencies. From 2000 until 2021 Neil was the Chief Executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES)- the UK national organisation for local economies.
Dr Marcus Spiller is a founding partner at SGS Economics and Planning. Marcus is formally qualified in commerce and urban planning. He has practised as a consultant for much of his career, though he has also worked as an academic, local government town planner, Ministerial Adviser and senior bureaucrat in State and Commonwealth Government agencies. He is an expert in regional economic development, housing policy, infrastructure funding and metropolitan governance. This includes writing and co-editing two books on urban management.
Sushma Nagaraj is the Local Employment Partnerships and Coordination Project Officer at Hume City Council. She has over 10 years’ experience in local government sector working in Community Grants, Economic Development, Early years and Community Development. Sushma’s interest in working with diverse communities comes from a desire to create positive change in people’s lives.
Thomas Walker is an economist and geographer at SGS Economics and Planning who works with policymakers to develop healthy and thriving communities – from economic opportunity and social infrastructure to building greater trust and reducing the impact on earth's natural systems. Thomas has a passion for building resilient communities in the face of a range of economic, social and environmental pressures.
Liz Mackevicius is an urban planner and public policy expert at SGS Economics and Planning with over 15 years of experience in land use planning, government advisory and strategy and policy development. Liz enjoys the complexity and challenge of regional metropolitan planning, open space planning and municipal markets.
