People
Jack Malan is a founding partner of CSES. He previously worked for Ernst & Young where he was responsible for leading the firm's evaluation and regional policy work. He has more than twenty years of consulting experience, and has a strong standing in Europe as an evaluation practitioner. Jack has led many assignments for the European Commission including EU-wide studies in the employment, justice and home affairs, and regional development fields as well as in relation to EU-supported agencies and networks. He has also worked extensively in areas such as business incubation, science parks, risk capital and economic development. Jack holds a degree from Cambridge University.
Mark Whittle is a CSES Partner. Mark has more than 10 years experience in carrying out public policy consulting work for clients including the European Commission and national and regional authorities in the UK and elsewhere. He has expertise in carrying out evaluations across the evaluation lifecycle. Policy specialism include: regional policy and economic development, labour markets, equality and diversity, incubators and science parks. Prior to joining CSES, Mark worked for Ernst & Young Management Consultancy Services in London. He has a first-class degree from Swansea University.
Jan Smit is a CSES Partner with over a decade of consulting experience. Jan was formerly a senior consultant with Ernst & Young International Location Advisory Service (ILAS), London. Prior to joining E&Y, Jan worked for The Economists Advisory Group (EAG). He has carried out a large number of assignments for both the public and private sector in location consulting, economic development and particularly inward investment promotion. Recent clients have included UNCTAD, SEEDA (South East England Development Agency), UK Trade and Investment, and the London Development Agency (LDA).
Achilleas Tsamis is a CSES Consultant. Achilleas holds a doctoral degree in regional planning from the LSE, prior to which he studied chemical engineering and technology policy in Greece and at the MIT in the US. In the past, Achilleas worked for the Technology Park of Thessaloniki and for a brief period for the European Commission's DG Enterprise. Since joining CSES, Achilleas has worked on a number of evaluation and impact assessment assignments for European institutions. His areas of specialisation include innovation policy, regional development, incubators and Science and Technology parks.
Quentin Liger is a CSES consultant. Prior to joining CSES, Quentin has worked as a consultant and managed projects and feasibility studies for clients in the privte and the public sector. His areas of expertise include heavy industries and trade issues as well as employment policies and social dialogue. Earlier work included the evaluation of Third Sector programmes. Quentin graduated from UniversityCollege London with a degree in History and Politics and afterwards obtained a Masters Degree in South East European Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (London).
Daniel Beresford is a CSES consultant. Daniel holds a Master's degree in Central and Eastern European Studies from the University of Vilnius, prior to which he studied Politics and International Relations at Oxford Brookes University. Before joining CSES, Daniel gained work experience with the Organisation for Security Cooperation in Europe and in journalism with the monthly magazine Standpoint. In addition, Daniel has supported the strategic consultancy Oxford Analytica and worked on a number of evaluation studies for European institutions. His areas of policy specialisation include EU security policy, EU energy policy and justice, liberty & security related issues.
Michael Gardiner is a founding partner of CSES. Earlier in his career, Mike was a partner in Ernst & Young's Economics Group. He specialises in evaluation work and pan-European research studies for the European Commission. Policy interests include the internal market, regional policy and economic development, labour markets, equality and diversity. He has worked in most EU countries, Central Europe, the Middle East, the US and some far eastern countries. Mike is a Chartered Accountant and has an MA in Economics from Cambridge University.
Mike Coyne is a CSES Partner with wide experience in EU affairs. Originally an academic at a Business School, Mike worked for ten years in Brussels on SME policy, first in a Coopers and Lybrand team and then as an official in DG ENTR, collaborating with Member State authorities and business organisations on a programme of best practice exchange. For five years he was then managing director of a modern software company, before joining CSES where he has specialised in impact assessment methodology and evaluation work, in the areas of IPR, enterprise policy, innovation and the creative economy, and the Internal Market.
Barry Bright is a CSES Associate He leads the firm's international location work with companies. Barry has over 20 years consulting experience gained at CSES and at Ernst & Young where he was Director of the International Location Advisory Services. Barry has advised many of the world’s leading firms with their location and site selection including American Express, Avis, Black & Decker, COLT Telecom, Diageo, Kimberley Clark, Merrill Lynch and Whirlpool. Barry also provides strategy, organisation design, training and marketing advice to International Promotion Development Agencies. Prior to Ernst & Young Barry worked at UK HM Treasury and Ford of Europe.
Anna-Maria Krarup is a senior consultant at CSES. She has 15 years of professional experience in Brussels, where she first worked as an external consultant on a variety of EU programmes managed by Coopers and Lybrand and Deloitte & Touche, before becoming a Commission official in the EuropeAidCo-operation Office. Since joining CSES she has undertaken a wide range of evaluations and impact assessments in the areas of employment and social policy, education and training and health and safety. Anna-Maria studied business administration and languages at the Copenhagen Business School.
Sonia Cook is the CSES survey manager and administrator. She has extensive experience in managing and analysing surveys including, in recent years, an on-line facility for data collection. Sonia has worked on numerous pan-European evaluation assignments since joining CSES in 2003, using statistical software tools such as SPSS and Microsoft Excel. Sonia holds a degree in geography from the University of Greenwich.
Filipa Figueira is a CSES consultant. Filipa was formerly a researcher at the Brussels-based think-tank Centre for European Policy Studies, and has also previously worked as a consultant in European affairs. Filipa holds a degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a Masters in European economics from the College of Europein Bruges. She is also in the final stages of a PhD in economics at Utrecht University. Her areas of specialisation include the EU budget, regional policy and the economic analysis of European policies. In addition to her native Portuguese, Filipa is fluent in French, English and Spanish, and speaks some Dutch.
Michael Richardson is a CSES consultant. Michael received a first degree in international economics from Universite Paris-Est in France and was awarded a Master's degree in European public policy from University College London (UCL). As part of his Master's dissertation, he conducted a 'Comparative analysis of integration models of immigrants/minorities in Britain and France'. Michael subsequently completed a traineeship with the Committee of the Regions in Brussels. Before joining CSES, he gained valuable professional experience in lobbying and policy research at a European trade association, where he developed considerable expertise in the field of EU environmental and food safety issues.