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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 industry, having previously covered the 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 and, more recently, 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. He is currently managing three 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. Graham also worked on the MATISSE project for DG Research. 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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