Andrew Limb has worked at Cambridge City Council for the past 14 years, as Head of Corporate Straegy and Assistant Chief Executive. He has been responsible for climate change strategy; anti-poverty strategy & community wealth building; equalities & diversity policy; digital strategy; business planning & performance management; democratic services (including elections); communications; and a range of corporate projects. He was the city council’s lead during the negotiation of the £500m Greater Cambridge City Deal with Government, and has worked with partners across Cambridgeshire on inclusive and sustainable growth. Andrew is a continuing policy fellow with the University’s Centre for Science & Policy.
Previously, Andrew spent seventeen years in the civil service. He has experience of working alongside both failing and high-performing political and managerial teams in local authorities across the East of England, and of working with senior civil servants and Ministers in central Government. From 2003 to 2010 he worked at the Government Office for the East of England, first as Head of the Regional Strategy Team, then as Team Leader, Local Area Agreements, and finally as Deputy Director, Partnerships & Performance.
From 1998 to 2003 he was Cabinet Office Team Leader for Civil Service Reform, advising ministers and negotiating with departments to secure Whitehall-wide implementation of policy on deregulation, funding stream rationalisation and organisational change. This period included a secondment to Sweden to study public sector management and reform, and contribute to a Swedish agency governance project. Prior to this he worked as a Private Secretary to the Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office and as a policy advisor in the Openness Policy Team.
Andrew holds a BA in Politics with Economic & Social History from the University of Sheffield and an MA in the Sociology of Sport from the University of Leicester.
