Benjamin Hobbs

Benjamin Hobbs is a Graduate Regeneration Officer, currently working for the Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Salford City Council.

His day-to-day work involves development, investment, and public affairs across the Place Directorate at Salford, overseeing a 20-year pipeline of growth activity. He has also worked at the GMCA on delivery and the Growth Location programme.

In 2026, Ben was selected as a ‘MIPIM Challenger’, attending the international property festival to represent the City of Salford and Greater Manchester.

Academically, Ben is passionate about devolution, productivity, growth, and social mobility, the latter of which he has first-hand experience of. He works with leading social mobility charities, ‘upReach’, and ‘The 93% Club’.

Building on his work on social mobility, Benjamin was appointed in April 2026 as a Governor and Member of the Corporation of Tameside College.

Having lived in the city region his whole life, growing up in Tameside, Ben considers himself one of the biggest advocates for Greater Manchester and envisions a long career within the city region’s local government ecosystem.