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Graham Hay has overall responsibility for the operation, development and marketing of CE's UK Industrial Service, which analyses the UK economy in sectoral detail.
Graham manages the production of the forecast updates for CE's UK Industrial Service, which provides a review of recent experience and forecast projections for the UK economy in detail by industry sector, and maintains these updates on CE's Knowledge Base website. As the first point of contact for the service, Graham liaises with subscribers to deal with their requests and enquiries, and he regularly makes client presentations. As a sector expert for the distribution sector (wholesale distribution, retailing, hotels & catering) he contributes commentary and analysis to the Knowledge Base, having previously covered the communications, computing services and construction industries. He contributes to CE's other forecasting services, providing commentary and analysis for CE's UK Regional Service and UK Energy-Environment Service.
Graham is currently managing a sector competitiveness study for DG Enterprise under a framework contract that aims to provide a thorough and up-to-date understanding of over 40 industry sectors, including the issues, opportunities and challenges they face. He has already managed five sector competitiveness studies the EU ceramics, EU glass, EU metalworking, EU non-ferrous metals and EU defence sectors previously. The work involves scoping, gathering and overseeing the processing and presentation of data to describe the structure and characteristics of the industry in question, combined with literature review work to support a deeper sectoral analysis to assess the competitive position of the industry. He is also managing CE's contributions to two other sector competitiveness studies, and leading a project to provide the UK CES with an updated evidence base on labour market outcomes and summarise the results in the organisation's Almanac publication.
Recent projects he has managed or contributed to include: a project to provide an up-to-date assessment of the UK's skills profile for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UK CES) (formerly the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA)), to assess progress towards the Leitch ambitions; a project to assess the feasibility of building a labour force forecasting model for Lifelong Learning UK (a Sector Skills Council). Graham also managed CE's contribution to the Learning and Skills Council's Skills in England 2006 report.
He also worked on the MATISSE project for DG Research, which aimed to improve the range of methods and tools available for use in sustainability assessment. This involved conducting desk-based research and stakeholder meetings to help design a case study to assess the implications of technology transfer to accession countries for sustainable development. Other projects to which he has contributed include: a project commissioned by the SSDA to review the Skills for Business network performance and evaluation framework, and associated scorecard; the analysis undertaken for the Builders Merchants' Federation's annual survey of members; sectoral analyses for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, which summarised trends and drivers, existing/on-going foresight research, policy issues and major challenges in selected sectors (published on the web portal of European Monitoring on Change as 'Sector Futures'); employment forecasts for the SSDA Working Futures 2 release; estimating and analysing economic prospects for industries in Cardiff; and a project examining trends in commercial and industrial waste in England for DEFRA. He has also written regular economic briefings for regional policymakers.