Chris Khamis

Chris Khamis is a Director of CSK Strategies. An economist by training with 20 years experience of regeneration and local economic development, Chris is known nationally for his work in building effective partnerships and in developing regeneration programmes that deliver. As a founding Director of CSR Partnership, he worked on a wide range of cutting edge assignments in the field of regeneration and renewal. This has included bid and delivery preparation, baseline analyses, strategy and programme development, partnership capacity building, consultation and stakeholder engagement, management advice, evaluations and succession planning for virtually every major regeneration initiative of the past 20 years including the Urban Programme, Task Forces, City Challenge, European Funding, SRB, New Deal for Communities, Neighbourhood Renewal and Neighbourhood Management, Regional Development Agencies and Housing Market Renewal. His "specialism is his generalism" with a capacity to knit together strategies and action plans which are owned by a diverse range of stakeholder from the public, private and voluntary/community sector.

More recently, Chris has been involved in neighbourhood profiling and action planning in preparation for devolved management of services and in advising Local Strategic Partnerships including assisting in the production of Community Plans and Local Area Agreements. Alongside this, Chris's work has included the introduction of performance management, monitoring and appraisal systems, and assistance with the introduction of commissioning approaches to service development. He has a strong interest in equality and diversity issues. In addition, economic impact studies, impact evaluations and labour market research has been a particular interest of Chris's work, including the first economic impact study of the Notting Hill Carnival.

Prior to becoming a consultant, Chris was Chief Executive of a pacemaker City Challenge Partnership in Wolverhampton . This was a successful multi-faceted 5-year programme including significant initiatives in economic development, education and training, community development, health, community safety and housing. Prior to this he was Head of Training and Employment Development at Wolverhampton Council and, before that, the Engineering Industries Training Board's Economist.

Chris serves on BURA's Best Practice in Regeneration Panel. He has also been appointed as a Neighbourhood Renewal Adviser for the National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal. He is an enthusiastic member of the Lunar Society in Birmingham, a Director of Wolverhampton Science Park, and a member of the Board of TLC College, a community-based education, training and social regeneration project located in the multi-ethnic neighbourhood of Whitmore Reans in Wolverhampton .

Full CV | chris@csk-strategies.co.uk