Director

Barry Moore is a Director of PACEC, Emeritus Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and a Fellow in Economics at Downing College, University of Cambridge. He is an internationally recognised applied economist with his early research being undertaken in the Department of Applied Economics (DAE) in the University of Cambridge and subsequently helped to co-found the Centre for Business Research at the Judge Business School before moving to the Department of Land Economy. He is a member of the advisory board of the School of Business, Bangor University, Wales.

Barry co-founded PACEC in 1985 building on his applied academic research at the DAE, and has been providing services in support of local, regional and national economic development ever since. He spearheaded the growth of the company’s work in technology and knowledge transfer from the research base into the economy; innovation and regional policy development; policy appraisal and evaluation; and the development of applied economic methodology. He has worked for many of the major UK central government departments (including BIS, HM Treasury, and DEFRA), regional development agencies, other government bodies (e.g. NAO, HEFCE), as well as private sector companies both in the UK and overseas. He recently has directed a number of key projects in the higher education sector including evaluating knowledge exchange funding for HEFCE which has helped shape the future of the Higher Education Innovation Fund, and assessing the economic and social impacts of higher education institutions for a variety of individual universities. Previous ESRC funded research includes a study of the relationship between academic research and R&D strategies in large companies. He was also a Principal Investigator of a European Commission Targeted Socio-Economic Research project which focused on high-technology clusters in the EU and the role of HEIs.