Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning
Author
Seamus Nevin
Head of
employment and
skills policy, IoD
Seamus is head of employment and skills policy.
He is a member of the government’s National
Living Wage advisory group, the Department for
Business, Innovation & Skills’ Teaching Excellence
Framework advisory, the Business Enterprise
Reference Group at Ofsted, the Micro-Social
Change (MiSoC) Policy Advisory Group at the
Institute for Social and Economic Research
(ISER) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for
the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and
Commerce (RSA). Seamus has extensive public
policy experience. Prior to joining the IoD,
he worked in the policy unit of a party in the
Northern Ireland Assembly, the public affairs
division of a major UK third-sector organisation,
for a leading international think tank, and for
an economic policy research institute operated
jointly between the London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE) and the University of
Oxford.
Seamus holds a (Joint Hons) BA International in
history, politics and international relations from
University College Dublin (UCD) where he was
awarded a Parnell Scholarship and won the TD
Williams Medal for graduating first place in his
class. In addition he holds a diplôme from the
Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences
Po-Paris) and an (Hons) MSc from the LSE. His
LSE master’s degree dissertation was published
in a scholarly periodical and he has had a number
of other academic papers published. Seamus is
a regular commentator across radio, print, online
and television media..
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