CRAC:: Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Dr Mary Archer

Mary Archer has been chairman of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust since 2002. She is also chair of the East of England Stem Cell Network and a trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation. She read Chemistry at St. Anne’s College, Oxford and obtained her PhD in Physical Chemistry from Imperial College, London. After post-doctoral work at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford and the Royal Institution, London, she moved to Cambridge and for ten years taught chemistry for Newnham and Trinity Colleges.

From 1989 to 1992, she was a member of the Council of Lloyd’s of London, the insurance market, and from 1993 to 1998 she served on the DTI’s Energy Advisory Panel. From 1990 to 2000 she chaired the National Energy Foundation (a Milton Keynes-based organisation which promotes energy efficiency), and is now its President. She is also President of the UK Solar Energy Society and of the Guild of Church Musicians (which fosters musicianship among church choirs and organists), and a board member of the Britten Sinfonia. She is the author of Rupert Brooke and The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (1989), and co-editor of Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics (2001), Molecular to Global Photosynthesis (2004), and The 1702 Chair of Chemistry at Cambridge (2005). In June 2002, she was awarded the Melchett Medal by the Energy Institute.

Adrian Bridgewater
Adrian Bridgewater co-founded CRAC in 1964, and was Director until 1973. Before graduating from Cambridge in 1961 he worked for three years on the shop floor as a trainee for a Midlands engineering firm. During that time he saw no graduates working in industry until he was sent to Switzerland and France, where attitudes to commerce and industry were very different. After Cambridge, where he had co-founded Image magazine, he worked for three years as editor and publisher of the Cornmarket Press careers directories for Michael Heseltine, leaving to set up CRAC. In 1974 he founded Hobsons Press Ltd as a separate commercial company, contracted under licence and royal agreements to manage CRAC's publishing interests. He retired as Chairman of Hobsons in 1992 and has been a Board Member of ECCTIS since 1989, and CRAC Council since 1993.

Adrian is currently Deputy Chairman of Papworth Trust and a Director of Emma Bridgewater Ltd and of Care Choices Ltd. He represents CRAC as Director of ECCTIS Ltd.

Dr Kenneth Edwards
Dr Ken Edwards was Vice Chancellor of the University of Leicester 1987-1999 having spent the previous 21 years in the University of Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Reading in 1958 and completed his PhD in 1961 at Aberystwyth. After a year at the University of California, he joined the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, before moving to the Department of Genetics at Cambridge in 1966. He was a Fellow of St John's College from 1970 to 1987. Between 1980 and 1984 he was Head of the Genetics Department at Cambridge and also Chairman of the School of Biological Sciences. Dr Edwards has published widely in the field of genetics; research interests include studies in developmental and population genetics in barley. Dr Edwards was Chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals from 1993 to 1995, and was President of the Association of European Universities from 1998 to 2001.

Patrick Coldstream CBE
As Chairman of South East Training; Deputy Chairman of Fullemploy from 1982-1985, Patrick used these three years to promote and develop the charitable organisations he founded. The employment Skills Overview Group, of which Patrick was Chairman, was established to bring together senior members of the universities, industry, their representative bodies, Government departments and their Quality and Funding agencies, to develop policy on how "employability" could in practice be sensibly and effectively included among the objective of higher education courses. The Council for Industry and Higher Education is an independent body of heads of large companies and universities. It was brought together by Lord Prior, then Chairman of GEC, in 1986. Patrick was its Director from the beginning. Its aim was to mark out the long-term common interest of the business and academic worlds and be a joint voice to government, universities, colleges and companies. He retired from the Council in 1996. Building on the Fullemploy experience, He founded SouthEast Training as a consortium of South London employers to demonstrate how private sector resources and goodwill could be focused on the training needs of an exceptionally deprived inner-city area. In a sense both Fullemploy and SET were experiments in putting the idea of a "partnership" into practice. Patrick is also Honorary Doctor of Laws at Leicester University, and Honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Bradford and at Oxford Brookes University; also an Honorary Fellow of the University of Northumbria at Newcastle and the University of North London.

Margaret Dane

Margaret Dane has been Chief Executive of AGCAS, the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services in the UK and Ireland since June 2002. In this capacity she represents AGCAS and its member services at national and international level, working closely with the AGCAS President and Board of Directors. She has over 30 years experience of working in the field of higher education and careers guidance. Margaret was AGCAS President from 1995 to 1998, previously serving on the AGCAS Executive Committee in a variety of positions. She is also immediate past President (2000 - 2003) of FEDORA, the European Forum for Student Guidance. In these roles, she has spoken at conferences and developed excellent links with colleagues in HE Careers Services in the UK, Ireland and in many countries across the world.

Margaret has also developed strong links with relevant government departments and agencies, with employer and student organisations and with other related professional bodies. Margaret participated in the 2003 OECD world conference on “Careers Guidance & Public Policy” involving key representatives from over 30 countries and has contributed to the EC consultations about the possible formation of national guidance policy forums.

Previously Margaret worked at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh as Director of Student & Academic Affairs and as Director of the Careers Service. She is a Director of the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship, serves on the Board of the Guidance Council and has recently joined the Council of CRAC. She is also Chairman of Careers Scotland, Edinburgh and Lothians Advisory Board.

Mike Killingley

An experienced HR professional, Mike worked for HSBC Bank plc for 35 years, taking early retirement in 2004. At that time his responsibilities included the design and delivery of leadership development programmes for HSBC Group, including responsibility for several core programmes delivered by business schools. He acts as a corporate reviewer for EQUIS, and has visited a number of European business schools applying for accreditation.

He has a strong interest in education issues and is a trustee of The Centre for Recording Achievement and a board member of CRAC: the Career Development Organisation. Mike has been a governor at both primary and secondary schools and is currently a governor at a Sheffield secondary school and Chair of the Sheffield Association of School Governing Bodies. He also undertakes training assignments with school governing bodies on behalf of the Sheffield Governor Support Team. He is a member of the Consultative Group of the School Governors’ One-Stop Shop initiative.

Chris Last
Chris joined Ford from university in 1979. He has held a variety of positions in England, Wales and the USA. He has been the Regional HR Manager in South Wales, Employee Relations Manager in Dagenham, Director of International Service in the US and HR Manager for Product Development. In his current position as HR Director he is responsible for the nine HR Managers for each function in Ford - Marketing & Sales, Product Development, Manufacturing, Finance, Purchasing, Public Affairs & Staffs, HR, IT and HR Business Operations; all recruitment, reward and recognition, Personnel Development and the internal HR Consultancy.Chris has a law degree from Southampton University.

Shiona Llewellyn
Shiona Llewellyn is an independent career management consultant with more than twenty years' direct experience of 'helping people to help themselves' within the modern working and educational world. In 1982,following a decade in management within the media, she made a positive decision to take her analytical and communication skills into the careers world, joining the University of London Careers Advisory Service at a time of considerable change. This experience provided a unique professional training, which laid the foundation both for her subsequent style of working, and her understanding of different occupations and organisations.In 1985,following the birth of her first daughter, she began to work independently, and since then has consulted successfully with a portfolio of blue-chip organisations. Commissioned by HR Directors to develop and deliver a diversity of career management and development projects, she works with individuals and larger groups across all levels of modern organisations. Passionate in her belief that high-quality, client-focused 'real world' careers guidance and information can have a positive influence on peoples lives, Shiona is increasingly interested in the educational and career decision making and career planning relating to bright and capable young people as they embark upon the critical first few year’s of their lives following school or university. This interest led to standing for election to the Council of CRAC, which she joined in November 2004.She is also a Fellow of the RSA,and a member of the Careers Writers' Association.

Married, with two undergraduate daughters, Shiona enjoys living in, and working from, her home in Kew.

Brian Stevens
Brian Stevens is a Modern Languages graduate with a further degree in the acquisition of primary and secondary languages. He taught for seventeen years in the south of England, latterly as one of the senior staff helping to establish the Godalming Sixth Form College in Surrey.

From 1983 to 1985, he was Goldsmith’s Industrial Fellow, working with BP, NatWest and the Institute of Education at the University of London.

In 1985 he was invited by the banks to become the Director of the Banking Information Service, which was part of the banks’ trade association, the British Bankers’ Association, where he stayed until 1995. During that time, he established the BiS as one of the lead private sector organisations working with the education sector. Extending BiS at the wishes of the banks, he also set up the Banking Lead Body to develop the banking industry NVQs. This in time grew into the Banking Industry Training and Development Council, a strategic Council on training issues, which became the Financial Services NTO, and is now the Sector Skills Council for the financial services sector.

From 1995 until the Spring of 1996 he was Director of External Relations at the British Bankers’ Association, an advisor to the Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment and the business representative on the then Secretary of State’s Advisory committee on School Improvement.

After some re-structuring at the BBA, involving the closure of BiS, he left the BBA to set up FEdS in July 1996. FEdS is a lead edge consultancy company working as a catalyst between some 50+ national and multi-national companies, the Government and the Education/Training sectors to bring greater understanding between them and to promote the importance of life-long learning.

in 1998, with Sir Nicholas Goodison, he established the Goodison Group
in 2001, on behalf of Microsoft and the DFEE, he set up the eLearning Foundation
in 2003, the Goodison Group in Scotland was established under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrew Cubie
in 2004, he chaired the Employers’ group for the Tomlinson Review.

Since 2001 he has been developing the Signposter Programme, providing free electronic access for all individuals of whatever age or stage to information on learning and employment opportunities.

Andrew Summers CMG

Andrew Summers works as chairman and board member in business and government. His current roles include chairman of Companies House, chairman of Design Partners, director of Ramboll Whitbybird, and Deputy President of the Royal Society of Arts.

He was Chief Executive of the Design Council until 2003. Previously he was Chief Executive of the Management Charter Initiative developing the first management standards of best practice. He has also been a board member of the DTI Small Business Service and of British Trade International and chairman of the DTI European Trade Committee.

He was previously Managing Director of Sharwood’s, then Managing Director of RHM Foods and non-executive director of New Covent Garden Foods. He was chairman of strategy consultancy Brandsmiths until 2006. His education activities include being a board member of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, a governor of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama and Adjunct Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a member of the Board of Companions of the Chartered Management Institute and chairman of the Arts & Media Panel.

He has a Natural Sciences and Economics degree from Cambridge University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster. He was awarded the CMG in 2001 for his work in promoting

design internationally.

Prof Tony Watts OBE

Tony was joint-founder of CRAC, and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Derby and at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is also a Founding Fellow of the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC), which is sponsored by CRAC, and which he directed from 1975 to 2001. He has carried out many projects for government departments, and has acted as consultant to a number of international organisations including the European Commission, OECD and UNESCO; he worked at OECD from 2001 to 2002. He has published a large number of books and articles. He was awarded the OBE in the 1994 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to education.