Mr Ian Brinkley
Job Title: Director of the Knowledge Programme
Company Name: Work Foundation
Ian is Director of the Knowledge Economy programme having joined the Work Foundation in June 2006. The first Knowledge Economy Programme ran from 2006 to 2009. The second Knowledge Economy Programme will run from 2009 to 2011.
Ian previously worked at the Trades Union Congress between 1980 and 2006. He was Head of the Economic and Social Affairs Department at the TUC from 2004 to 2006 and TUC Chief Economist from 1996 to 2006.
Prior to 1980 he worked as a researcher at the University of Kent and the Centre for Environmental Studies.
He has been a member of the Low Pay Commission, the body that sets the UK?s National Minimum Wage (NMW) from 2004 to 2006.
He has worked in a wide range of economic and industrial policy and research areas, including economic policy, public spending and public service reform, labour markets, energy and the environment and manufacturing policy and produced numerous submissions to government and analytical papers.
He regularly provides economic and labour market commentary, interviews and articles for the Foundation.
Recent TWF publications as sole author include Defining the Knowledge Economy (2006); Trading in Ideas and Knowledge (2007); Enterprise and the Knowledge Economy (2008); Manufacturing and the Knowledge Economy (2009); Recession and the Knowledge Economy (2009) and How Knowledge is Reshaping the Economic Life of Nations (KE Programme report); co-authored reports include Labour market Polarisation and Efficiency (2006), Hard Labour (2008) and Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers (2009)
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