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Bernie Ward

Bernie Ward is Manager of the Local Money Flows Programme at the New Economics Foundation (NEF) where she has worked for the last four years. Her particular interest lies in building links between public sector workers, community leaders and businesses so that together communities can make use of the wide range of opportunities available to them. In practice this has meant working with those at the cutting edge – the most entrepreneurial, far-sighted and best-networked individuals at the local level. It has been her pleasure to work with them to develop,pilot and promote practical tools (and the occasional policy) to encourage not just joined–up thinking, but joined–up practice, in the field of local economic renewal.

Bernie set up the Plugging the Leaks programme at NEF, creating several of the visual tools used within this handbook (such as the inward investment irrigation channel and the regeneration funnel) and has been rather surprised at just how much impact these ideas are having! In addition to Plugging the Leaks, Bernie is also managing the development of an evaluation tool that measures the local multiplier effect (and hence the local economic impact) of single initiatives. Her UK regeneration experience builds on her international expertise in supporting more marginalised communities in the development of their economies in both Mexico and Nicaragua. (Reference : New Economics Foundation)