I am a consultant specialising in communication and market development in education and skills. As a result of my Fellowship awarded in 1990 for research into the language and business skills needs of the European Single Market, I developed a suite of multilingual business Euroqualifications. These were taken across Europe, Asia and South America until 2004. In Germany, the increase in unemployment after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification led the German Ministry of Labour to fund a Euroqualifications programme to retrain their local teachers. Euroqualifications also supported the UK's entry to the European Single Market in 1992.

In my subsequent awarding body career as a Director of LCCIEB (London Chamber of Commerce and Industry Examinations Board), then Head of Examinations at LAMDA (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) and Managing Director of NCC Education, I have worked with a wide range of sector skills bodies, regulators and corporates in educational policy and qualifications development, as well as with overseas governments and their agencies.

My interest in communication led to an invitation in 2009 to judge with Philip Pullman and Benjamin Zephaniah the BBC Poetry Competition for primary school children which featured in the BAFTA-winning documentary Off by Heart.