Greater Essex Business Board

The Greater Essex Business Board (GEBB) is a new strategic advisory board delivered:

• by businesses
• for businesses
• with businesses

It brings together business influencers to advise, advocate, and lobby in the interests of Greater Essex.

GEBB exists to influence economic growth policies at the local and national level. This includes providing strategic advice to political decision-makers.

It will will have the freedom and autonomy to set its own agenda, using evidence to develop its own positions on key issues. The board's advice will help in setting the strategic direction for local economic policy. This includes producing and updating an Economic Strategy for Greater Essex.

The board will:

• act as ambassadors for the Greater Essex economy
• represent the voice of the private sector.
• influence the issues and decisions that impact local businesses

Board members will raise the profile of Greater Essex. They will represent wider business views as they work to influence local and national economic policy.

Responsibilities will include:

• informing economic strategy and shaping economic development priorities
• making Greater Essex stand out, compete and attract investment
• shaping the Essex skills programme, collaborating with the Essex Chambers of Commerce
• convening stakeholders from key growth sectors to influence investment and support job growth
• shaping and overseeing the provision of future Government programmes