Advisers and areas of expertise
Ben Willmott
Head of public policy. Specialises in employment law, employment relations, employee engagement and wellbeing, conflict management, stress and absence management, leadership and management capability.
Charles Cotton
Research and policy adviser. Specialises in performance and reward, pay levels, structures, progression and awards, bonuses and Incentives, benefits, company cars, holidays, non-financial reward and recognition, share plans, senior pay, pensions and retirement
Claire McCartney
Research adviser. Specialises in talent management, flexible working and work-life balance, employee attitudes to work, diversity and inclusion
Dianah Worman
Research and policy adviser. Specialises in diversity and inclusion, ex-offenders and employment, harassment and bullying, work-life balance, flexible working, equal pay, mental health and stress at work, employment and caring, talent management and diversity
Gerwyn Davies
Labour market adviser. Specialises in labour market trends, welfare reform, migration
Jonny Gifford
Research Adviser. Specialises in employee relations and engagement. Also has interests in corporate social responsibility, equality and diversity, leadership and organisational development
John McGurk
Coaching, public policy, apprenticeship, learning and skills councils, skills shortages
Jill Miller
Research adviser. Specialises in HR capability, people management in SMEs, absence management
Katerina Rudiger
Katerina is the Skills policy adviser for the CIPD. She is responsible for the CIPD’s approach to skills policy issues and engagement with policy-makers and wider stakeholders in this area.
Ksenia Zheltoukhova
Research associate. Specialises in leadership studies and their application in organisations. Particular research interests include meaning and purpose of work, life stage, organisational citizenship behaviour
Laura Harrison
Head of strategic development. Specialises in the future of HR, change management, organisation development
Mark Beatson
Chief Economist. Leads on CIPD’s labour market analysis and commentary as well as leading thinking and influencing policy making across the whole spectrum of people management and workplace issues.
Mike Emmott
Public policy adviser. Specialises in employee relations and employment regulation including contracts of employment, directives, employment tribunals, industrial disputes, mediation, negotiation, strikes, trade unions, working time
Vanessa Robinson
Head of HR capability. Specialises in the future of the HR function (including Next Generation HR), technology, social media, outsourcing, leadership development, management of change
Wilson Wong
Senior researcher (OD Insight and Practice). He is responsible for research on the psychological contract, primarily on the construction of organisational fairness and its impact of managing change and organisational cultures.