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CEO Karen Price receives Queen's Birthday Honours

e-skills UK CEO, Karen Price, has been named in the Queen’s birthday Honours list. She is to be appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to the IT industry.

Following a wide-ranging career encompassing education, business and a number of roles in IBM UK’s Corporate Affairs and Global Services divisions, Karen led the mergers which created e-skills UK in 2000, and the subsequent successful licensing of the company as a Sector Skills Council in 2003. Today, Karen focuses e-skills UK on working alongside employers to adapt and upgrade the skills of the existing workforce and on working with education to prepare the future workforce, so that the UK can continue to thrive in the global economy. This includes, for example, the award-winning CC4G, which is transforming the attitude of a generation of young girls towards IT, and new employer-led degree courses in response to the changing nature of IT employment in the UK. 

Karen Price has said she is extremely proud to have been awarded this honour.  Karen believes that the honour reflects the excellent work of the whole e-skills UK team as well as the many employers and other partners who work with e-skills UK to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of the UK through action on IT skills.

Karen Price expects to receive her OBE from the Queen later this year at Buckingham Palace, at a date to be confirmed.

 

Posted on 30 Jun 2006