Cities under strain: European, Asia Pacific and North American cities face multiple challenges
In our latest quarterly round-up on world city prospects, Richard Holt our Director of Global Cities Research set out our views on the outlook for 2023 and beyond, across many Asia Pacific, US and Canadian majors. And Lawrence Harper-Scott from our European cities forecasting team put those cities under scrutiny. With Covid-19 still a rumbling issue in China, the Ukraine war having powerful impacts in Europe, and recession anxieties in the US and Canada, now is the time to think hard about 2023 prospects.

Richard Holt
Director of Global Cities Research
+44 (0)203 910 8080

Richard Holt
Director of Global Cities Research
London, United Kingdom
Richard is a key member of our cities team, working on both our standard forecasting and scenario services and on bespoke consultancy projects for individual clients. He is particularly interested in the long-run drivers of regional and city performance, how these relate to macroeconomic factors, and whether or not policy interventions help to improve performance at the local and regional levels. Richard leads many of our flagship projects and presents regularly, both online and at conferences and other events.
His career has included spells in New York and Birmingham, England, with a variety of economic consultancies and forecasters. He is an independent director of the outdoor arts consortium Without Walls; a trustee of the Property Research Trust; and in 2020 was the joint winner of the prestigious Rybczynski Prize awarded by the Society of Professional Economists for the year’s best piece of writing on economics: How robots change the world: their impact on regional inequalities.

Lawrence Harper-Scott
Economist, Cities & Regions
+44 (0) 203 910 8066

Lawrence Harper-Scott
Economist, Cities & Regions
London, United Kingdom
Lawrence Harper-Scott is an economist in the Cities & Regions team, he primarily produces forecasts for regions in the Nordics and Central & Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Oxford Economics Lawrence graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Economics.
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