Details of the main speakers and host for the Leadership Summit
Wednesday 25 January - Thursday 26 January
Dolphin Square Hotel, Pimlico and Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster
The welcome to the Leadership Summit 2006 will be by the Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell MP.
Bill Rammell's role takes an overview of HE, FE, adult skills, the LSC and Lifelong Learning ensuring the overall coherence of all post-19 policy. He is the lead on Higher Education issues and the reform of Further Education including the Foster Review. His specific areas of responsibility for Higher Education are Standards in the Learning and Skills sector, Widening participation in HE, Student finance and the Student Loans Company, Quality assurance In HE, Research and innovation in HE, Part-time learners, HEFCE, and Foundation Degrees.
Bill Rammell was first elected to the Commons in 1997, and sat on both the European Legislation and Scrutiny committees. He joined the government in 2001 as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tessa Jowell, before moving on to the Whips Office. Prior to joining the DfES he was theParliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office.
The keynote speaker at the Leadership Summit 2006, on the evening of Wednesday 25 January, will be Lord Stevenson.
Lord Stevenson is Chairman of HBOS plc and very recently retired as Chairman of Pearson plc. He is a non executive director of Manpower Inc. He is Chairman of the House of Lords Appointments Commission and Chairman of Aldeburgh Productions Ltd.
He was Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery 1988 - 1998. Until September 2000 he was the Prime Minister’s Special Adviser on the application of ICT in education. He sits on the cross-benches in the House of Lords.
Lucy Hodges will host and chair Thursday 26 January - the main day of the Leadership Summit, which takes place from 9.30am through to 4pm
Lucy Hodges is editor of The Independent's education supplement and writes on higher education for that supplement. She has spent most of her journalistic career in education journalism, starting out with the Times Educational Supplement. She was Washington correspondent of the Times Higher for five years and has also been education correspondent of The Times and The Evening Standard.
Last updated: 21 December 2005