Alison Wolf Professor of Management and Professional Development, King's College London Professor Wolf is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London.  She has a long-standing interest and involvement with education and labour market policy. This stems from work as a policy analyst in the US government, and she continues to undertake regular consultancy work for a range of government departments, here and overseas, and for professional and examining bodies. She worked for many years at the Institute of Education, where she is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow, and she is also a Council Member for the United Nations University. As well as her mainstream research, which currently includes a large ESRC-funded study of government-funded training, Alison is a regular writer for the general media, and is a columnist for the Times Higher Education Supplement.