This report was prepared by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. This work was conducted as part of the OECD’s Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Programme with financial support from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation.
The analysis and preparation of the report were co-ordinated by Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp under the supervision of Jonathan Barr, Deputy Head of the Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation Division and Karen Maguire, Head of the Local Employment, Skills and Social Innovation Division, OECD. The report was drafted by Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp, OECD, and benefited from valuable contributions from Jonathan Barr (OECD) and Fiona Aldridge, Director for Policy and Research at the Learning and Work Institute. Andrew Paterson (OECD) also provided comments. Eric Gonnard, Michela Meghnagi, Miriam Odonkor and Ida Peltonen (all OECD) provided helpful statistical support. Pilar Philip and François Iglesias (both OECD) prepared the report for publication.
The OECD Secretariat expresses its gratitude to various representatives of the Greater London Authority. Special thanks are due to Michelle Cuomo Boorer, Forogh Rahmani, James Lee, Gabriele Piazza, and Anna Cooban for their support throughout the project in facilitating contacts with employers, training providers, and local policy makers in London, as well as for providing relevant data on London’s labour market and adult learning systems, and also to Edmund Worsley and Richard Garrett (UK Department for Education) and Poulomi Solanki (UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) for their helpful comments.
The OECD Secretariat is very grateful to the representatives from the Skills for Londoners Board and Business Partnership for participating in many bilateral interviews as well two workshops that provided important input for the report. Special thanks are also extended to Hanka Boldemann, Executive Director of Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase Foundation, as well as Michal Langton, Luisa de Simone, Jovana Lalic, and Sarah Moreau (all JPMorgan Chase Foundation).