Kate O’Connor is Executive Director and Deputy CEO of Skillset, the Creative Industries’ the Sector Skills Council. Kate’s role is to establish and oversee the organisation’s approach to policy and development working in conjunction with industry and across UK Government and its public agencies.
Kate was the founding member of staff at Skillset in 1992. Since that time Skillset has developed from a Standard Setting Body through being the first ‘Trailblazer’ Sector Skills Council to be licensed, to being at the very forefront of industry and national skills policy developments.
Prior to joining Skillset, Kate worked as the Test Development Manager at City and Guilds of London Institute. There she managed a small consultancy team with an extensive employer client base. Before that, Kate worked in the Government’s Department for Employment in various roles all connected to training and skills policy.
Kate is a Board Member of Capital Quality Ltd, a major London based consultancy, Investors in People and quality assessment centre; she also represents the industry on many consultative and policy advisory committees.
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