Diane has worked with the OxLEP Team since September 2014 where she project managed the development of the CCHTIP, which was successfully launched in July 2016. As Economic Development Co-ordinator in the Strategy Team, the focus over the next year will be to establish the Visitor Economy Sub-Group and help identify funding streams to deliver projects and programmes across Oxfordshire that support the new OxLEP Strategic Economic Plan priorities.

Diane brings a broad range of experience to this role from her 20 years’ working for the Scottish Office and University sectors. As an accountancy trainee she spent 10 years in finance before moving to The University of Oxford to manage the RoSBNet Synthetic Biology Network. This was followed by a move to Oxford Brookes University, where she was responsible for the organisation of the student induction for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the School of Arts.