James Gilmour

Senior Consultant

James’s work at Metro Dynamics focuses on the interaction between geography and local economies, and in particular on devolution, housing and infrastructure policy. He works with lower-level spatial data to map out information at a familiar level, and helps to shape policy interventions grounded in local need and opportunity. James is based in our Manchester office, and is committed to giving all of our places the tools they need to grow and thrive; recently, he has worked on housing policy in the Liverpool City Region, on funding transport infrastructure in Birmingham and on strengthening pan-Northern collaboration through the Convention of the North.

He originally joined Metro Dynamics as an intern following his Masters degree in Public Policy and Governance at the University of Manchester, where he wrote his dissertation on sub-national devolution in the UK. James is a keen writer, with extensive pre-work experience reporting, blogging, and editing, and writes in his spare time for the Manchester Mill, a regional newspaper. He is interested in particular in urban economies, their structure and design, and how they trade with each other and the world.