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Liverpool Shanghai Partnership's 'evolution'
2010. 21 April
Dr Kerry Brown, LSP’s executive director, today announced he is to step down next month after his contract ends to focus on his academic work at the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the School of Oriental and African Studies but said he will 
By Alex Turner
(liverpooldailypost.co.uk)
The Liverpool Shanghai Partnership is to be “made more mainstream” as it prepares for an expected shift in the type and volume of its work following the World Expo in China.
He leaves at a crucial time for the relationship between the sister cities, with Liverpool having a presence at the six-month World Expo which opens on May 1.
Dr Brown said: “The Expo will generate a huge number of new contacts and opportunities for partners in Shanghai and Liverpool. It will need a fresh approach and a new team to be able to carry these forward, both over the coming months, and into the future when the Expo closes in October.
“In view of that, I thought it best to step down from being the executive director of the LSP at the end of May, so that a new arrangement can be bought into play over the coming months that best serves the city and its link with Shanghai in view of the new context the Expo work will bring.
“We have done the big strategy, now it’s about the detailed work. It’s important to have people based locally to deliver that.”
Mike Taylor, who is the managing director of LSP within his role as Liverpool Vision’s director of investment and enterprise, said Dr Brown’s departure had been under discussion for six months.
An LSP board meeting is to discuss plans for the future of the organisation, although the LSP brand and its Shanghai office will be maintained.
He said: “The change is about LSP maturing and evolving. The whole of Liverpool’s presence in Shanghai needs to be much more mainstream.”
Source:www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk