Main Board

The North East LEP Board includes eighteen senior leaders from the private, public, education and voluntary and community sectors and is chaired by Lucy Winskell, OBE, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Employability & Partnerships) at Northumbria University. The Board includes three representatives from the North of Tyne Combined Authority and three representatives from the North East Combined Authority.

A register of the Board Members’ Expenses can be found here.

Lucy Winskell OBE

Chair of the Board

Heidi Mottram OBE

Vice Chair of the Board

Elected Mayor Dame Norma Redfearn

Vice Chair of the Board, Elected Mayor of North Tyneside Council

Emily Cox MBE

Main Board Member and Investment Board Member.

Colin Hewitt

Main Board Member and Investment Board Member.

Ammar Mirza CBE

Private sector Board member, Chair of Business Growth Board

Phil Redman

Board member

Ellen Thinnesen OBE

Board member and SAP Board Chair

Meeting minutes and agendas

The North East LEP regularly publishes agendas, reports and minutes of its Board and sub Investment Board on this page. Where reports contain confidential information, this may be excluded under The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012.

January board papers and agenda

March

November

September