e-mail: allistermcgowan@yahoo.co.uk
Allister’s background is in career guidance and he was Chief Executive of Hertfordshire Careers Services and of VT Careers Management before becoming Director of Strategy for VT Education and Skills. He has been working as an education and management consultant since 2006 and is currently chair of the National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC) and of the Board of the Institute of Career Guidance (of which he is a past President).  He is also an external examiner for the University of Ulster, a role he had previously undertaken for the Nottingham Trent University. He was a founder of the trade association, Careers England, and continues to be a Director of that organisation and of an “interim labour market†company he helped to establish in Hertfordshire to address issues of youth unemployment and energy conservation.
