Professor Andrew Miller began his career as a teacher in several West London schools before joining the School Curriculum Industry Partnership national team. Since writing case studies for Industry Year '86 he has worked in the field of education-business collaboration in various roles: Research Director of SCIP; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Education and Industry at the University of Warwick; Head of Education at Focus (central London's Training and Enterprise Council); and government adviser from 1995-2000 and 2003-2007 on work experience, mentoring and education-business links, latterly on the national strategy for enterprise education.

Professor Tony Watts, OBE, is a Founding Fellow and Life President of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling. He is also Emeritus Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby and a Fellow Commoner of St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Professor Ian Jamieson, OBE, was Research Director of the Schools Council Industry Partnership, and later Professor of Education and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Bath.