Ken Mayhew
Biography
Ken Mayhew is a labour economist who has spent most of his career in Oxford University where he is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance and a former Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Pembroke College.
Ken read Modern History at Oxford and did a Masters in Economics at LSE. After graduate school he joined Her Majesty’s Treasury before moving back to Oxford. In 1989 and 1990 he was Economic Director at the UK National Economic Development Office, and has worked as a consultant for many private and public sector organisations at home and abroad, including the European Commission, the OECD, the UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills and the UK National Apprenticeship Service.
His main research interests are in policy analysis, labour economics, human resource management and the economics of education and training. He has recently written on the last Labour Government’s economic record and the present Government’s strategy for growth. He worked on a Russell Sage Foundation project on the future of low paid work in the wealthy world, and is currently engaged on a variety of linked projects on the future of higher education. Together with David Finegold, Chris Warhurst and John Buchanan, he is also editor of The Oxford Handbook of Skills and Training, due to be published shortly.
Appointed: Appointed: September 2014 (reappointed in Month March 2018 and then extended in December 2020) Term ends: May 2021