Martin Ferry

Martin Ferry is a Principal Research Fellow at EPRC Glasgow and EPRC Delft. He holds a PhD in the political economy of transition in Central and Eastern Europe. Since joining EPRC, Martin has specialised in regional economic development and policy in Central and Eastern Europe (particularly Poland). He specialises in regional economic development and urban policy, and has undertaken extensive research on the implementation of national regional policy and Cohesion policy, involving EU-wide evaluations and studies carried out on behalf of the European Commission and comparative research projects conducted at the behest of Member States or as part of EPRC consortia projects. This includes a recent contribution to a European Commission assessment on the use of Technical Assistance to support ESIF administrative capacity building. He leads on EPRC research on sustainable urban development and integrated territorial investments, producing a series of comparative outputs for the European Commission and the European Parliament. He is currently leading EPRC work for the European Commission on the ex-post evaluation of Cohesion policy-funded territorial delivery mechanisms in 2014-2020 and for the Horizon Europe project DUST on just and sustainable transition measures. He has published a range of academic articles, book chapters and policy reports on these themes. Martin is a Director of EPRC Delft and Coordinator of Postgraduate Studies.