Business Secretary
Lord Mandelson today announced the creation of a new advisory
panel on New Industry, New Jobs, Universities and Skills.
The new panel, to be chaired by Roger Liddle, will help generate
ideas across the whole of the Government’s New Industry, New Jobs
agenda, link it with the skills and higher education agenda and
challenge conventional policy thinking in these areas.
Announcing the panel Lord Mandelson said:
“The New Industry, New Jobs agenda will help equip Britain to
succeed in what will be a radically transformed global economy
over the next decade. People and business need the skills and
backing to take advantage of the changes to come. This new
advisory panel will generate new ideas and fresh thinking.”
The panel comprises:
· Roger Liddle, Chair of the
Policy Network and CumbriaVision;
· Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics, London School of
Economics;
· Hermann Hauser, Entrepreneur;
· Will Hutton, Executive Vice-Chair, The Work Foundation;
· Adam Lent, Head of Economic and Social Affairs, TUC;
· Dr Wendy Piatt, Director General of The Russell Group of
Universities; and
· Janice Shiner CB, Chair, The National Youth Agency.
Members of the advisory panel will be unpaid and will be
providing advice in a personal capacity, rather than as
representatives of interest groups.
The panel will report to the Secretary of State and officials at
the Department for Business will support its work.
Notes to Editors
1. New Industry, New Jobs,
Universities and Skills Advisory Panel:
Rogger Liddle is currently
Chair of Policy Network, the international progressive think tank;
Chairman of CumbriaVision, a public-private partnership promoting
a development strategy for the Cumbria sub-region; and a Visiting
Fellow of the European Institute of the London School of
Economics. Until October 2007 he was economic policy adviser to
the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso;
prior to that a Member of the Cabinet of the Trade Commissioner,
Peter Mandelson and for seven years from 1997 European adviser to
the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He has written
extensively on European and British affairs. He co-authored two
papers for the President of the Commission's think tank,
the Bureau of European Policy Advisers on
"Europe's Social Reality" (February
2007) and the "Single Market: Yesterday and
Tomorrow" (July 2006). He has written papers for the
Fabian Society “A New Social Europe” (September 2007) and “The New
Case for Europe” (February 2005) and co-edited with Tony Giddens
and Patrick Diamond “Global Europe, Social Europe” (October 2006).
A decade previously in 1996 he had co-authored "The Blair
Revolution" with Peter Mandelson. Roger was educated at
Carlisle Grammar School and The Queen's College Oxford
where he gained an MA in Modern History and an M Phil in
Management Studies.
Nicholas Barr is Professor of Public
Economics at the London School of Economics and the author of
numerous books and articles including The Economics of the
Welfare State (OUP, 4th edn, 2004), Financing Higher
Education: Answers from the UK (with Iain Crawford)
(Routledge 2005), and Reforming Pensions: Principles and
Policy Choices (with Peter Diamond) (OUP, 2008). He spent
two periods at the World Bank working on the design of income
transfers in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia and has been a
Visiting Scholar at the Fiscal Affairs Department at the
International Monetary Fund. Since the late 1980s, he has been
active in debates about pension reform and higher education
finance, advising governments in the post-communist countries, and
in the UK, Australia, Chile, China, Hungary, New Zealand and South
Africa. A range of academic and policy writing can be found on http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/nb.
Hermann Hauser co-founded Acorn Computers in
1978, leading the development team towards the production of the
BBC Micro Computer. He has wide experience in developing and
financing companies in the information technology sector having
founded and invested in over 25 technology companies in the UK and
US including ARM, E*Trade UK, Cambridge Display Technology,
Virata, etc. In 1997, he co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd
which targets early stage European technology companies. CSR,
Icera, Xmos, Solexa are among the investments he made.
Hermann obtained an MA in Physics from Vienna University. He also
holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge.
Will Hutton is executive vice chair of The
Work Foundation, the most influential voice on work, employment
and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise
senior political and business figures and comment in the national
and international media, Will is today one of the pre-eminent
economics commentators in the country. He began his career in the
city, as a stockbroker and investment analyst before moving to the
BBC, where he worked both on radio, as a producer and reporter,
and on TV as economics correspondent for Newsnight. Prior
to joining The Work Foundation, Will spent four years as
editor-in-chief of The Observer, for which he continues
to write a closely-watched weekly column. Will’s best-known book
is probably The State We’re In, which was seen at the
time as setting the scene for the Blair revolution. Since then he
has published The State to Come, The Stakeholding Society
and (with Anthony Giddens) On The Edge, a groundbreaking
analysis of globalisation. His most recent book is The Writing
on the Wall: China and the West in the 21 st Century and
his next is a book about fairness. Outside The Work Foundation,
Will is a governor of the London School of Economics, where he is
also a visiting senior fellow. He is an honorary fellow of
Mansfield College, Oxford, a member of the Scott Trust and a
fellow of the Sunningdale Institute. In 2004, Will was invited by
the European Commission to join a High Level Group on the mid-term
review of the Lisbon Strategy and act as its “rapporteur” for the
final report.
Adam Lent has been Head of the Economic and
Social Affairs Department at the TUC since August 2006. He leads
on macroeconomic policy, industrial strategy, labour market and
welfare issues, climate change, and pensions for the TUC. Prior to
his current post, Adam worked for a number of think-tanks and
research bodies on a variety of policy areas, including the
Rowntree Trusts’ centenary project, the Power Inquiry. He has been
a lecturer and research fellow at Sheffield University from where
he received a PhD. He is a member of the Consumer Prices Advisory
Committee, the Business-Government Tax Forum and a trustee of the
charity for young homeless people, Centrepoint.
Dr Wendy Piatt is the first Director General
of The Russell Group of Universities, appointed to set up an
organisation providing strategic direction, policy development
underpinned by research and communications for the 20 major
research-intensive universities in the UK. She was previously
Deputy Director and head of public service reform at the Prime
Minister’s Strategy Unit where she has also led work on social
mobility, local government, education and skills and digital
inclusion. Prior to that, she was Head of Education Policy at the
Institute for Public Policy Research, specialising in higher and
further education. She has written numerous reports on education
policy and has a Master's degree and a Doctorate in
Political Philosophy and Literature from Lincoln College,
University of Oxford, and a first degree in English from King’s
College, London.
Janice Shiner CB has worked at the most
senior levels within the public sector in the United Kingdom and
New Zealand leading sector and organisational reform. She is
current the Chair of the National Youth Agency, an advisor to the
Aldridge Foundation and strategic advisor to the board of Whites
Consulting Ltd. In the three years to August 2008 Janice was Chief
Executive of the Tertiary Education Commission, Wellington, New
Zealand. The Tertiary Education Commission is responsible for the
planning and funding of all post-compulsory education in the New
Zealand and is the primary source of policy advice on tertiary
education to the government. Before moving to New Zealand, Janice
was Director General of Lifelong Learning at the Department of
Education and Skills responsible for all post-school education.
Prior to joining the Department, Janice was Principal of Leicester
College and led the merger of two large further education colleges
and established the new college. Before that, Janice was Director
of Education and Policy at the Further Education Funding Council
(FEFC) and led much of the policy work on mergers, capital and
quality. Janice started her career in the private sector in
organisational development and HR. She has held posts such as Vice
President, HR Chase Manhattan Bank, HR posts in WH Smiths, and a
range of posts in advertising.
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