{"id":606,"date":"2026-06-15T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathonm76.sg-host.com\/eu\/our-people\/ruth-downes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:20:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:20:37","slug":"ruth-downes","status":"publish","type":"people","link":"https:\/\/eprc-strath.org\/eu\/people\/ruth-downes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Downes"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruth Downes is a Knowledge Exchange Fellow at EPRC. She holds a BA (Joint Hons) in Geography and German from the University of Strathclyde. She worked initially at EPRC from 1990-2003, specialising in regional disparities and regional development policy in the emerging countries of Central and Eastern Europe as well as regional policy and governance in Austria and Sweden. 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