John Tully is Director of City and Organisational Strategy at Belfast City Council, with responsibility for overall coordination and portfolio management of Belfast’s city strategy “The Belfast Agenda”. John is also responsible for the Council’s Climate Team, Strategy & Policy, Performance Management, Customer Contact Management and Continuous Improvement / Service Design. Belfast City Council is a member of the Inclusive Growth Network.

Councillor Huw Thomas has been Leader of Cardiff Council since May 2017.

As Leader of one of the fastest growing cities in the UK, Huw's administration is committed to a ‘Stronger, Fairer, Greener’ Cardiff through promoting inclusive growth and delivering major projects that include a £300m school building programme, the construction of 4,000 new Council homes by 2030, significant transport infrastructure developments and a new 17,000-seater Indoor Arena in Cardiff Bay.

Huw has served as a Labour Councillor for the Splott ward in Cardiff since 2012, chairs the Cardiff Public Services Board and is a director of Millennium Stadium Plc.

He is a member of the South East Wales Corporate Joint Committee and is a Vice-Chair of the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) Regional Cabinet. In addition, he is one of the Welsh Local Government Association’s Economy Spokespersons and a member of the Core Cities Cabinet alongside representatives from other major cities in the UK.

Huw is a fluent Welsh speaker who graduated from Oxford University before completing a Masters in International Relations at Aberystwyth University. He has worked previously in IT, transport and, most recently, international development, as the Head of Christian Aid Wales.

Carla Cebula is Senior Analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF). Carla supports the Scotland team at JRF to understand the scale and depth of poverty in Scotland. She has previously worked as a researcher at the University of Glasgow, researching gender inequalities in academic science careers, and as a statistician at Education Scotland. She completed a Phd at the University of Edinburgh looking at the effects of economic, social and cultural capital at home and in neighbourhoods on young people’s educational attainment in England.

Ross Mudie is a Research Analyst at CPP, with interests in inequality, innovation and community development. Having spent brief spells working on policy and strategy development in local government, he was most recently a research assistant at United Nations University-MERIT, where he holds a Double MSc in Public Policy and Human Development along with Maastricht University. His areas of expertise and interest include industrial strategy, devolution and local government, public service reform and thegreen economy.

Rosie Fogden is Head of Research & Analysis at CPP. She joined the organisation in 2019 as a Senior Research Analyst and now leads our research programme, covering a breadth of projects from business investment to childcare. She has written on the importance of investment in public services to improve our health and productivity and on the role of good employment in making our economy more inclusive. Her areas of interest include good and flexible work, public health, early years, inclusive economics and fiscal policy. Before CPP, Rosie worked as a Senior Economist in the Cabinet Office. Prior to that, she worked on policy to promote the UK’s international economic interests at HM Treasury and has held several other roles across government.