Alison Cook

Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook, the Economic Development Officer at Stevenage Borough Council told us a bit about her background and her interest in the GHP model.
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Originally from Middlesbrough, Cleveland, Alison Cook now lives in Cambridge. She completed her first degree in Art History and English Literature at University of East Anglia, and then went on to work mainly in IT and technology project management. During 2000-2001 she spent some time in Hong Kong as Project Manager for Cathy Pacific upgrading their IT equipment in North and South America. She then went back to her studies, completing her MBA at University of Bath, School of Management. Having gained an interest in the civil service whilst working on her dissertation on the Police Service, Alison went on to work in Westminster for the Office of Government Commerce (part of HM Treasury). She then moved to local government and joined SBC in Sept 2004.

Alison's current role as Economic Development Officer at SBC is a varied one involving strategy, policy development and project management. Her work includes masterplanning, best use of Stevenage's employment land, and trying to understand and forecast the economic needs of Stevenage into the future. She works with the local and regional private sector to help deliver the economic vision and growth agenda of Stevenage, and with local, county and regional partners to deliver projects and share information. Much of her job involves securing funding to deliver our projects, and she has recently worked with funding partners such as EEDA and the EU. Alison was involved in the recently establishment of the Gunnels Wood Business Partnership to promote the Gunnels Wood employment area. She also spends much of her time visiting local businesses, and working in partnership on other initiatives such as projects linking the education and business sectors.

Alison is very interested in how the public sector uses the private sector to deliver public services and the complexities around this. She hopes that her job has a purpose and is making a difference, at some level, to improving peoples' lives. Her interests outside work include skiing, walking, yoga, arts and design. Alison just moved to Cambridge and is currently 16 weeks pregnant.
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Alison spoke to Dave about her experience of working with GHP on the ,sunken' roundabout, ,Whilst we could have gone to many landscaping design companies and achieved a 'pleasant park', the GHP have taken our brief to another level.

Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook & Dave Wells
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Alison Cook, the Economic Development Officer at Stevenage Borough Council told us a bit about her background and her interest in the GHP model.Her colleague, Dave Wells, Strategic Development Officer (SBC) explains why they chose to continue working with GHP on this new project.

Originally from Middlesbrough, Cleveland, Alison Cook now lives in Cambridge.She completed her first degree in Art History and English Literature at University of East Anglia, and then went on to work mainly in IT and technology project management.During 2000-2001 she spent some time in Hong Kong as Project Manager for Cathy Pacific upgrading their IT equipment in North and South America.She then went back to her studies, completing her MBA at University of Bath, School of Management.Having gained an interest in the civil service whilst working on her dissertation on the Police Service, Alison went on to work in Westminster for the Office of Government Commerce (part of HM Treasury).She then moved to local government and joined SBC in Sept 2004.

Alison's current role as Economic Development Officer at SBC is a varied one involving strategy, policy development and project management.Her work includes masterplanning, best use of Stevenage's employment land, and trying to understand and forecast the economic needs of Stevenage into the future.She works with the local and regional private sector to help deliver the economic vision and growth agenda of Stevenage, and with local, county and regional partners to deliver projects and share information.Much of her job involves securing funding to deliver our projects, and she has recently worked with funding partners such as EEDA and the EU.Alison was involved in the recently establishment of the Gunnels Wood Business Partnership to promote the Gunnels Wood employment area.She also spends much of her time visiting local businesses, and working in partnership on other initiatives such as projects linking the education and business sectors.

Alison is very interested in how the public sector uses the private sector to deliver public services and the complexities around this.She hopes that her job has a purpose and is making a difference, at some level, to improving peoples' lives.Her interests outside work include skiing, walking, yoga, arts and design.Alison just moved to Cambridge and is currently 16 weeks pregnant.
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Alison spoke to Dave about her experience of working with GHP on the ,sunken' roundabout, ,Whilst we could have gone to many landscaping design companies and achieved a 'pleasant park', the GHP have taken our brief to another level.