Leads Sector Skills Councils on the development of Diplomas
Chair, SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for the Building Services Engineering Sector
Chief Executive, Qualifications and Curriculum Authority since 2002
Previously Managing Director of Technical and Further Education and Director-General of Education and Training, in New South Wales, Australia
Made an Officer in the Order of Australia for services to education and training in 2001
Co-Vice Chair, Associate Parliamentary Skills Group
Conservative Member of Parliament for Daventry since 1987
Minister at Department of Education (1992-5), Shadow Minister for Further and Higher Education and Disabilities (1999-2001)
Chief Executive of Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual Industries
Chair of the London Sector Skills Forum, the network of 25 Sector Skills Councils working in London
Awarded the OBE for her services to Media Industries in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Honours List in 2002
Managing Director, Creative Leadership and Skills Strategies
Former Chief Executive of UK Skills and TEC National Council
Former Regional Director for the LSC in London
Chief Executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Chair of UK Skills
Formerly Director General of the City and Guilds of London Institute, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce and Chief Executive of the TEC National Council
Chair, Associate Parliamentary Skills Group
Labour Member of Parliament for Blackpool South since 1997
PPS to Rt Hon Tessa Jowell at the Department for Culture Media and Sport (2003-5), member of the Education & Skills Select Committee (2005-7)
Chief Executive, Edge, an independent campaigning organisation that aims to raise the status of practical and vocational learning
Former Chief Executive of NTO National Council
Former Chief Executive of a UK-wide charity, Action Resource Centre
Founder and CEO, Horse’s Mouth, a social networking site for universal online mentoring
Former Chair of Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe, now a top five UK advertising agency and part of the Y&R group
Chair of the Marketing Group of Great Britain and of TH_NK, one of the fastest growing digital agencies in the UK
Chief Executive of Policy Connect
Former Chief Executive of Urban Mines, an environmental charity and consultancy dedicated to waste materials
25 years of experience in a wide range of businesses at senior level in the public, private and not-for-profit sector