Alex Plant - Former Chief Executive

Alex was the Chief Executive of Cambridgeshire Horizons from early 2008 to July 2011. Cambridgeshire Horizons is the not for profit organisation driving forward the delivery of sustainable new communities in Cambridgeshire. 

Alex joined Cambridgeshire Horizons from the Government Office for the East of England (GO East), where he was Deputy Regional Director with particular responsibility for Development and Infrastructure, taking forward the Governments' growth agenda across the region.
 
Prior to joining GO East, Alex was Head of Economic Policy & International Aviation at the Civil Aviation Authority, and before this worked in HM Treasury on various micro-economic policy issues and led for HMT on competition policy throughout the process of reforming the UK competition regime and introducing the 2002 Enterprise Act. He previously held a number of other Whitehall positions, in particular covering elements of tax policy. He is a graduate of Nottingham University (2:1 Joint Honours in History & Politics) and has studied competition and regulation economics at City University, London.

In October 2010 Alex was asked to become the officer lead for the development of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (GC GP LEP) outline proposal, working in partnership with a range of colleagues from across the LEP area from the public, private, education and third sectors. Alex also still remains fully committed to his role as Chief Executive of Horizons.

Alex's key areas of responsibility were:

• To lead the Horizons team
• To drive forward the sustainable growth of Cambridgeshire
• Lead work on implementation of LEP proposals
• Long Term Plans, inc low carbon futures and funding