Ken Mayhew

Professor of Education and Economic Performance, and Director of ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford

Ken’s first specialism is labour economics and he has published extensively in this field and in policy analysis more generally. For the last 20 years he has concentrated particularly on education, skills and economic performance. Most recently he has been one of the two UK national leaders in a multi-country project, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, on the future of low wage work. He has also been particularly concerned with skills and the labour market fortunes of older workers and with the role of the higher education sector. He has a long and extensive experience of working with policy makers. In 1989-91 he was Economic Director of the National Economic Development Office. In 1983 he spent 8 months working for the CBI. He is closely involved with other groups working on policy aspects of skill formation and usage. For example, he is currently chair of the expert committee for the job related questionnaire segment of PIAAC (the OECD’s successor to IALS). He has worked as a consultant or advisor for, inter alia, the Department of Health, the DfEE and DfES, the DTI, the Cabinet Office, the South West Regional Development Agency, Futureskills Scotland, National Economic Research Associates, the Polish, Belgian, Dutch and Italian Governments, Group Training Australia, SFK (Sweden), the US Congress, the EU and the OECD.

Ken Mayhew, Professor of Education and Economic Performance, and Director of ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE) at the University of Oxford

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