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Dr Katerina Homenidou Associate Director BA (Athens), MA (Leeds), PhD (Cantab) |
As Manager of CE's UK Regional Service, Dr Homenidou has overall responsibility for the forecasts and analysis for the Government Office regions and devolved administrations of the UK with a ten-year time horizon. She coordinates the contributions made by CE's network of local economic consultants and is responsible for developing and maintaining CE's overall regional economic view. She is an expert in the analysis of regional and local economic data, and supervised the development of CE's county economic forecasting service.
She has managed a variety of projects providing local and regional economic analysis to commercial and public sector clients. Recent examples include: a high-profile study for a consortium of organisations led by the Corporation of London analysing current and prospective commuting flows to 2021 in London and the wider South East; a study for the Cambridge-MIT Institute analysing the impact of the silent aircraft technology on the UK regions; a study for the South East England Regional Assembly to develop economic scenarios for employment and output to inform the development of the South East Plan; a study for the Sector Skills Development Agency preparing employment forecasts for detailed 67 sectors for Local Learning & Skills Councils; a study for the UK Film Council analysing the economic impact of screen industries in the UK regions; a project for Yorkshire Forward preparing monthly monitors that summarise recent developments in Yorkshire & the Humber.
Dr Homenidou graduated in 1971 from the Athens Graduate School of Economic Sciences, where she subsequently completed a postgraduate course in Business Administration. She obtained an MA with distinction in Economic Statistics at the University of Leeds, supported by a scholarship from the Athens Centre of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE), the foremost national economic planning agency in Greece. She obtained her PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge in 1982. She worked as a Principal Investigator at KEPE before returning to Cambridge as a Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics.
Image scanned from photograph taken by Dorothy Hahn
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