IDS PAY PLANNING FOR 2012 CONFERENCE

CHAIR:

Katharine Turner is Practice Leader of Towers Watson’s Executive Compensation team in the UK. She has over twenty five years of experience in the remuneration field. She works with Remuneration Committees and management teams in both the private sector and public service on all aspects of executive remuneration, incentive design and corporate governance. She has worked on HR policy development in situations of major corporate change such as mergers and disposals and designed and project managed key programmes for a variety of employee groups from senior executives through to international assignees and account managers.

Before joining the firm in 2001, she held senior global compensation and benefits roles in industry principally with British Telecommunications, ICL (Fujitsu Services) where she was responsible for broad employment policy as well as remuneration and benefits, and GEC. She worked in international consultancy and HR research/publishing before becoming a compensation and benefits practitioner. At Towers Watson she works with clients in a range of sectors including communications, energy, support services, FMCG and public services. She has commented on executive pay in the media and written for a range of professional publications.

She has an MA in History from the University of Edinburgh and a MSc (Econ) in Industrial Relations and Personnel Management from the London School of Economics. She is a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). She is a past Chair of the CIPD Compensation Forum and past Vice President of the CIPD

SPEAKERS:

Duncan Brown is a Principal Consultant in the Reward & Engagement practice. He joined Aon Hewitt from the Institute for Employment Studies, where he was Director of HR and Reward Development. He has more than 20 years' experience in HR consulting and research with firms including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Towers Perrin. He also spent five years as Assistant Director General at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

His clients have included major private sector companies such as BP and BA, government departments such as the Cabinet Office and Equality and Human Rights Commission, local authorities and not-for-profit organisations such as Cancer Research, ACCA and the United Nations.

Duncan is a leading commentator on HR issues, who has published numerous reports, articles and books. He has just published a new book on reward effectiveness. Duncan has appeared on BBC TV breakfast and evening news, as well as Radio 4's Today programme. He has participated on Government taskforces concerned with pensions and human capital reporting and is a member of the expert advisory group to the Hutton Review of Fair Pay.

Duncan sits on and advises a number of board remuneration committees. Human Resources magazine placed him in its listing of the top 10 most influential thinkers in UK HR in 2009.

Phil Burrows is Manager, HR (Strategy and Planning), Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd.

Steve Gibbons is a Director of Labour Rights at Ergon Associates, an organisation which he co-founded in 2005. He was previously Head of Employment Law at IDS and the editor of IDS Brief. Steve works with both private and public organisations developing and delivering employment law training and advising on implementation.

He has over 20 years of experience researching, writing, advising and training on UK employment law. He is an acknowledged expert on issues relating to complex multiple party employment relationships, including agency work, supplier chain labour and contract workers. He acts as a consultant on Corporate Responsibility and labour and human rights issues to a range of bodies including the World Bank, the ETI, the European Commission and the organisers of the London 2012 Olympics.

He is a regular conference speaker and published widely.

Alastair Hatchett is the head of Pay and HR Services at IDS. He leads several teams of researchers whose work on pay and company HR practice is highly respected and widely quoted in management, union and government circles.

He has been involved in research projects for the Low Pay Commission, the Pay Review Bodies, HM Treasury and several government departments. He has spoken regularly to CIPD and trade union audiences on a wide range of issues such as payments systems, the labour market and employment trends.

He has been a regular broadcaster on radio and television over many years.

Alastair is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

Ken Mayhew is Professor of Education and Economic Performance at Oxford University, Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance.

He has worked at the Treasury and at the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics. From 1988 to 1990 he was Economic Director of NEDO.

Simon Moffatt became Reward Manager for Prudential UK & Europe in 2009 having previously been Business Manager to the HR Director of Prudential UK & Europe. Simon is responsible for translating Prudential UK & Europe Reward strategy into key functional and organisational reward goals which drive a high performance culture.

Simon has extensive knowledge of Prudential UK & Europe including Operations, Service Development and Product Management. He has also been Executive Assistant to the Customer Services and PruLab Directors.

Simon has an MBA through the Open University.

Ken Mulkearn is Editor of IDS Pay Report and a range of other publications from IDS, including the annual ‘Pay in the Public Services’. As well as reporting on developments around pay and conditions across the economy, his team are responsible for compiling the data that appears in IDSPay.co.uk, the new online pay benchmarking tool from IDS.

During his time at IDS, Ken has covered pay developments across the private and public sectors and he has been closely involved in a large number of research projects for a variety of external clients. He has spoken to a wide range of audiences on pay issues, and has also broadcast on radio and television.

Nicola Smith was appointed Head of the Economic and Social Affairs Department (ESAD) of the TUC in March 2011. The Department undertakes research and develops policy in a wide range of areas including: macro-economic policy, the labour market, public spending, industrial policy, the environment, tax, corporate governance, social security and the welfare state, working time, minimum wage, vulnerable work, housing, transport and pensions. ESAD works closely with many partners on these areas including trade unions, government departments and agencies, employers, NGOs, think tanks, parliamentarians and journalists.

Before joining the TUC as Head of ESAD, Nicola was a Senior Policy Officer in the Department responsible for coordinating the work of the Commission on Vulnerable Employment and then specialising in labour market and social welfare policy. Prior to that she worked as a principal researcher at the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion and in policy and research roles for Barnardo’s and the Children and Young People’s Unit at the then Department for Education and Skills.

Nicola has written widely and contributed to radio and television broadcasts on many topics including the welfare state, labour market trends, social exclusion and poverty.