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Urbecon brings together people with a wide range of professional and academic skills and experience. There is a small core team supported by a much larger number of specialist associates. Below we introduce some key members of the team.

 

 
 
 
Danai has been an Urbecon consultant for over seven years and has worked on assignments which cover the full range of the company's activities but has specialised in research in crime and community safety and in the statistical analysis of local economies

Danai Chambati Woodhead

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Peter Gresham

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Peter is the founder and director of Urbecon Ltd and co-founder of the Urbecon Crime and Community Safety Unit (UCU). He has twenty years' consultancy experience and previously served as a local authority chief officer and as an advisor at the National Economic Development Office.

 
 
 
Roger leads work on Urbecon's economic development services  He has five years' consultancy experience and has run projects concerning employment policy, training schemes, neighbourhood renewal schemes, business liaison and  evaluation of large-scale area investments. He has previously worked as research manager of a learning and skills council and as head of research for a trade association.

Roger Morfey

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Phil is an acknowledged expert in inward investment promotion, having served as chief economic development officer in two local authorities and head of inward investment for a regional development agency before pursuing a consultancy career. He recently carried Urbecon's flag in Slovakia for a year, but also found time to work with Peter Gresham investigating recycling industries in the UK.

Phil Asquith

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Gavin Jones

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An engineer by training with extensive private sector management experience, Gavin is Urbecon's expert on transitional economies. He has spent over ten years working in eastern Europe and the far east on a wide range of economic development and re-structuring programmes for such diverse agencies as the European Commission and the United Nations.

 
Natasha joined Urbecon as a research consultant in 2006, having completed her Master's degree in the London School of Economics and Political Science. She brings sound data collection and analysis skills and contributes to all areas of the company’s work. Natasha has worked on a project examining cross-boundary offending in south-west London and has worked on the design and development of a statistically-based crime performance monitoring system.   

Natasha Comber