The Lord Mayor of the City of London is in Leeds today (20th January 2012) to strengthen economic links between the city’s financial services sectors and the Square Mile.
During his visit, which is organised by Financial Leeds and Leeds Chamber, the Yorkshire-born David Wootton will meet senior figures from Leeds’ financial services sector to provide his party with information on Leeds’ specialism’s and how it can complement the capital’s offer.
The role of the Lord Mayor of the City of London sees him being champion of the entire UK-based financial sector which he promotes internationally through an extensive programme taking him around the world.
The Lord Mayor will also witness Leeds’ strengths in advanced manufacturing during site visits to ATB Morley and Surgical Innovations (SI), designer and manufacturer of creative solutions for minimally invasive (“keyhole”) surgery, where he will see how the UK is at forefront of innovation and engineering.
Mark Goldstone, head of policy at Leeds Chamber of Commerce, says:
“The Lord Mayor’s visit provides an excellent opportunity to enhance the relationship between Leeds and the City of London. As the UK’s second largest financial services sector, Leeds offers many skills and specialism’s that London does not have and we want to make to make the Lord Mayor aware of these before he embarks on his international tour”.
Graham Bowland, CEO of Surgical Innovations, said:
“I am delighted to welcome the Lord Mayor to Surgical Innovations. We are renowned as being at the forefront of medical device innovation and ‘added-value’ in-house manufacturing. Our unique ‘Resposable™’ instruments are used by surgeons throughout the world, enhancing the Leeds City Region’s growing reputation as a centre for medical device technology.”