Gareth Jones

Director

Tel: 07966 397 922

E: gareth@hardistyjones.com

Gareth Jones MA, MSc, PhD is a Director of HJA, who has been involved in economic development since the early 1990s. He has been a consultancy director since 2003.

Director

Tel: 07966 397 922

E: gareth@hardistyjones.com

Gareth Jones MA, MSc, PhD is a Director of HJA, who has been involved in economic development since the early 1990s. He has been a consultancy director since 2003.

Following academic research in economic development he has worked in consultancy for PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG, Cushman & Wakefield, and SQW, before founding HJA in 2011. He has worked for both public and private sector clients in the UK and overseas, providing research, analysis, project development, business cases, funding bids, economic strategies, appraisals, and evaluation services. The core theme of his work is the economic impact of investment and new developments.

In recent years he has undertaken projects for local authorities, Local Enterprise Partnerships, landowners, and developers, in areas including low carbon energy infrastructure (nuclear, tidal, wave, wind, and carbon capture and storage); business cases for public funding for innovation, property and infrastructure projects; workspace demand evidence; strategies for market and coastal towns; and economic development strategies for local areas.