Chief Executive

• Involved with Policy Connect for over 10 years, became Chief Executive in 2006.
• Former Chief Executive of Urban Mines, an environmental charity and consultancy dedicated to waste materials, now a Board Member.
• 25 years of experience in a wide range of businesses at senior level in the public, private and not-for-profit sector.

PR & Events Manager

• Joined Policy Connect in March 2008
• Previous roles at IPPR, in financial services and in charity sector
• BA (Hons) and Masters in History from Warwick University

Events and Admin. Co-ordinator

• Joined Policy Connect in March 2008
• BA (Hons) in Contemporary Media Practices at University of Westminster
• Previous roles at UEFA as Champions league co-ordinator and at BBC

Research and Project Manager

National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group

• Joined the National Skills Forum in July 2006 as Research and Project Co-ordinator, promoted to Research and Project Manager in July 2006
• Masters degree in Modern History from Exeter College, Oxford University and undergraduate degree in History from Nottingham University.
• Previous research role at the Institute for Citizenship

Research and Project Coordinator, National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group

• Joined the National Skills Forum in July 2007
• MA in Modern History from York University and BA in History from Birmingham University
  
• Previous research role at the Dental Institute, King’s College London

Project Coordinator, National Skills Forum and Associate Parliamentary Skills Group

• Joined the National Skills Forum in June 2008

• BA in Philosophy from University of Wales, Cardiff. Starting part-time MSc in Government, Policy and Politics at Birkbeck College in 2008/09 

• Former parliamentary researcher and caseworker

Head of APSRG

• Joined the APSRG in September 2006 as Project Co-ordinator providing research and communication support.  Promoted to APSRG Research and Project Manager in November 2007 and Head of APSRG in July 2008.
• MSc Environmental Management for Business, Cranfield University
• BSc (Hons) Ecology, University of Sheffield

Project Co-ordinator

• Joined Policy Connect full-time in August 2008
• Completed Policy Connect internship
• BA (Hons) Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

Assistant Manager, Associate Parliamentary Health Group

• Joined Policy Connect Health in October 2007 to work with the Associate Parliamentary Health Group and the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
• BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Bath.
• Previous roles include Industrial Trainee for Pfizer UK Government Affairs and intern for APHG.

Project Manager, Chronic Pain Policy Coalition

• Moved to Policy Connect Health in January 2008 to work with the Chronic Pain Policy Coalition
• Joined as Parliamentary Events Officer in October 2006, promoted to Events manager in November 2007
• BA in Politics with International Studies, University of Warwick. Currently studying part-time for an MSc in European Public Policy at Birkbeck College, University of London