IAN STEVENS
Director - Research & Evaluation and Economic Development
BA in Town and Country Planning
MRTPI Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute
Ian is a Founder Director of Focus with responsibility for the economic development, research, and grant advocacy activities of the company. Within this portfolio Ian led the development of the first EU Structural Funding Action Plans to be approved in the United Kingdom, and has developed area and thematic regeneration strategies and masterplans for partnerships across the Midlands Region.
Ian has strategic and project experience across training, technology, telecommunications, business support, sport, art, tourism, heritage, and community issues, serving a client base in the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside and London.
