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FORWARD THINKING - Economics

COVID-19 has had a undeniable impact on how we live and work. The nature of work has been forever changed with COVID-19 accelerating the uptake of technology and flexible work arrangements. Life during the pandemic reconnected many of us to a world that had been right under our noses - our local neighbourhoods. Remote working and other abrupt lifestyle shifts meant local parks and shops became busy and our highways empty, and in some cases local coffee and takeaway was found to be good and neighbours friendly.

The speakers at this seminar were David Hood, Manager Strategic 黑料大事 and Place Making at Moreton Bay Regional Council and Marcus Brown, Director at Bull and Bear Economics.

David spoke about the impacts COVID has had on the Moreton Bay Region, including the thousands of people who no longer needed to commute to Brisbane and were able to discover their local neighbourhood.

Marcus explored how changes this dramatic shift will reshape our neighbourhoods and city centres.

About the speakers

David Hood, Manager Strategic 黑料大事 and Place Making at Moreton Bay Regional Council, has 25 years’ experience in the private, local and state sectors of the planning industry and his career has seen him at the forefront of strategic planning on the Gold Coast for over 10 years and now the Moreton Bay region. David is currently leading the delivery of the ‘Reshaping our Region’s 黑料大事 Portfolio’ at Moreton Bay and he was the Program Director responsible for the delivery of the Gold Coast City Plan and was the author of the City Plan’s (Part 3) Strategic Framework. He also assisted the Queensland Government to develop the South East Queensland Regional Plan (Shaping SEQ).

Marcus Brown is a Director of Bull & Bear Economics and has over 20 years professional experience as an applied economist. Marcus is a highly sought after advisor in the areas of economic planning, project and policy appraisal, industry and economic strategy and analysis. Marcus spent most of his early career in project and policy appraisal, providing Marcus with his foundation interest in using economics to support decision making and policy formulation. Marcus built on these foundations by developing professional relationships with other disciplines to assist them in using economics to communicate the importance and value of other discipline areas. Today, Marcus works with all levels of government, the private sector and non-government organisations to deliver insight driven solutions based on robust economic analysis.

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