2018 Manchester Fellow Shares Her Summer
Economics & International Relations
Class of 2020
2018 Manchester Fellow Elizabeth Champion spent a summer with GMCA’s Planning and Housing Research Team.
From the inception of its textiles industry, Manchester has been an engine of industry-led innovation, defining the city as a center of economic and institutional development. Manchester’s origin as a pioneer of development influenced its decision to devolve from national government.
With its first mayor and newly-formed Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), the new Manchester city-region plans to use devolution to address some of the region’s profound problems with education, housing, and transportation.