Education and Skills

Innovation requires talented individuals. The region’s competitiveness is reliant on businesses being able to attract, develop and retain an adaptable and highly skilled workforce.

Work Group Members

S&IC members

  • Professor Kel Fidler (Chair)
  • Fiona Cruikshank
  • Professor Graham Jones

Co-opted members

  • Professor Graham Henderson
  • Alan Hall (Northern Engineering Employers Federation)
  • George Ritchie (SembCorp Utilities UK and Chairman of Nepic Skills)
  • Ian Burdon (PB Power)
  • Mathew Lumsden (TNEI)
  • Alan Dixon (Association of Colleges)
  • Katherine Paterson (Universities for North East)
  • Gillian Collinson (Skills and Higher Education Strategy Manager at One North East)