Mike Palin
Biography
Mike Palin is the Executive Director of Markets, Partners and Places (MPP). He joined Homes England in February 2021 as Interim Director of the Cities and Major Conurbations Team. He is a successful deliverer of economic growth strategies as well as being a leading thinker on how economic growth implementation can fit with broader policy initiatives. His focus is on implementation of strategies to deliver results.
He is a former LA Chief Executive, LEP Executive Director and has held senior roles in Health and Social Care as well as having worked in private sector consultancy. As Chief Executive of St Helens Council he delivered a new economic approach that saw the Borough have the second highest per capita jobs growth in the entire North of England (resulting in an unemployment rate as low as 3.2% in 2019, from being at 10.3% in 2015), the attraction of over £1/2bn of private sector inward investment (with an increase in business rate income of over £10m per annum), as well as securing Government industrial strategy investment and a major Town Centre investment partner (English Cities Fund).
Mike is a Fellow of the RSA and completed the Global MBA programme at Manchester Business School graduating in 2021.