John Cridland speaks at the National Manufacturing Debate 2015

Session
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
09:20 - 09:20
Duration: 15 mins
Publication date: 04 Jun 2015
Location: NA, Cranfield University , Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Part of event The National Manufacturing Debate

About the session

The National Manufacturing Debate is an annual event hosted by Cranfield University, bringing together manufacturing professionals from a range of sectors to discuss and debate current challenges in the industry. The 2015 topic was “How do we develop the capability for effective reshoring to the UK?”.

Keywords:: Cranfield

NMD 2015

Reshoring

University

Channels

Sectors

Manufacturing

Speaker

John Cridland

CBI, Director General

As Director-General of the CBI, John Cridland is the key spokesman for the business community in the media, on public platforms and with the government. He leads the CBI – the voice of business - in the UK and represents it internationally.John is a Board member of Business in the Community and a UK Commissioner for Employment and Skills. He was Vice Chair of the National Learning and Skills Council between 2007-2010. He spent 10 years on the Low Pay Commission and the ACAS Council, and was also a member of the Council of Cranfield University and the Commission on Environmental Markets and Economic Performance.John was educated at Boston Grammar School and has an MA in History from Christ’s College Cambridge. He joined the CBI as a policy adviser in 1982. John was Deputy Director-General from 2000 to 2010.John is married with two teenage children and lives in Bedfordshire. He was awarded a CBE for services to business in 2006 and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Lincoln in 2011 and the University of Bedfordshire in 2013.

About the session

Channels

Title