IDS Pay Planning for 2008

The essential one-day event providing an authoritative assessment of key remuneration issues for the coming year

About the speakers

Katharine Turner joined the Executive Compensation Practice of Towers Perrin in London in 2001. She previously held senior roles as Vice President Global Compensation and Benefits at BT, ICL and Marconi. She is a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and a member of World at Work (formerly the ACA).

Alastair Hatchett is the Head of Pay and HR Services at IDS. He has been involved in research projects for the Low Pay Commission, the Pay Review Bodies and the Treasury and has spoken regularly at CIPD reward seminars and civil service college pay conferences.

Ken Mayhew is 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.

Duncan Brown is a Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers where he leads the Management and Employee Rewards practice. He was formerly the Assistant Director General at the CIPD. Duncan is a well-known researcher, author and speaker on reward issues and was voted in the UK's top 10 most influential people in HR by Human Resources magazine in 2007.

Gillian Taylor is Head of Reward at Marks & Spencer. She looks after Reward and Relocation for all employees excluding Senior Executives. Gillian joined Marks & Spencer recently from GAP Inc., where she was in charge of Reward, HR systems and HR administration.

Sarah Veale CBE is Head of the Equality and Employment Rights Department at the TUC, where she has worked since 1985 . The Department covers women's equality, equal pay, race equality, disabled workers' equality, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality, and equality on the basis of religion and age; the Department also leads on employment rights, both individual and collective. Before becoming Head of Equality and Employment Rights, Sarah was Senior Employment Rights Officer, in which role she was responsible for the development of TUC policy on employment law. She co-ordinated TUC activities in relation to the introduction of the Employment Relations Act 1999 and wrote the TUC Guide to the Act. She was also responsible for various TUC submissions to the Government, and was a member of the TUC team which negotiated the national framework agreement with the CBI and the Government on the Information and Consultation Regulations. She regularly briefs senior union officers on developments in employment and equality law. She is co-author of "Your Rights at Work", the TUC's book on employment rights. Sarah is a member of the ACAS Council, the Government's Better Regulation Commission and the Employment Tribunals System Steering Board. She was awarded the CBE for services to diversity in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2006.

Steve Gibbons is Director of Labour Rights at Ergon Associates. He was previously Head of Employment Law at IDS and for 14 years was Editor of IDS Brief. He is a sought-after conference speaker on all aspects of employment law and has published widely on diverse subjects.

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