Purpose
The purpose of each Advisory Board is to provide support and advice to the Mayor and Cabinet in steering and delivering the North East Combined Authority's strategies and programmes. Find out more about how our Advisory Boards work.
Areas of work
This board supports our drive to grow inward investment and build the North East’s place on the world stage to increase exports and trade, as well as giving local firms access to new finance and investment funds. This includes:
- inward investment and international relations / export/trade
- access to finance / investment funds
Find out more about our mission 'A welcoming home to global trade'.
Membership
| Councillor Glen Sanderson (Chair) | Leader, Northumberland County Council |
| Susie Izumi | Office for Investment |
| Alice Andreason | Newcastle International Airport |
| Matthew Beeton | CEO Port of Tyne |
| Matthew Hunt | Director Port of Sunderland |
| Martin Lawlor | Chief Executive Port of Blyth |
| Lee Hartley | Fairstone |
| Geoff Westmorland | HSBC |
| Peter Snaith | Womble Bond Dickinson |
| Andrew Dowler | Blackstone |
| Katy Evans | Cravens |
| Matt Bratton | CBI |
| Vicky Mears | British Business Bank |
| Professor Milan Radosavljevic | Universities North East England (University of Sunderland) |
| Kirsty Wells | North East CA Business and Economy Board Member (Merit) |