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Graham Hay Manager, UK Industrial Service MSc Economics, MA(Hons) Economics |
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 reports of 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 for maintaining its electronic version on the Knowledge Base. 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. He acts as a sector expert for the construction, communications and computing services industries, contributing commentary and analysis to the Knowledge Base. He contributes to CE's other in-house publications, providing commentary and analysis on the West Midlands for CE's UK Regional Report and articles the for CE's UK Energy-Environment Report.
He has managed a number of projects including CE's contribution to the
Learning and Skills Council's Skills in England 2006 report. He is currently
managing two sector competitiveness studies 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 is also currently responsible for managing 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. Graham also worked on the MATISSE project for DG
Research, which recently came to an end. The project aimed to improve
the range of methods and tools available for use in sustainability assessment
and 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.
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