Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School
Professor Raquel Ortega-Argiles holds the Chair of Regional Economic Development at Alliance Manchester Business School, where she leads the TPI Productivity Lab and the Knowledge Diffusion research programme at The Productivity Institute. Raquel is also a co-investigator in the Innovation Research Caucus and a member of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research. She is an economic researcher and policy adviser specialising in issues of regional development, productivity, innovation and entrepreneurship policy and the effects of economic shocks such as Brexit, Covid-19 or digitalisation. Her scientific work has been published in many different international academic journals and academic research books and ranges in approach from advanced econometric and statistical modelling to case study techniques. Raquel is an associate editor of Regional Studies and Journal of Regional Science.
