ROY NEWEY
Group Board Director | A4e Group
Director | A4e Insight
Co-Chair | UK India Skills Forum
Board Member | UK India Business Council
Managing Partner | Roy Newey Growth Partnership
Chairman | Ci Research
Session will focus on
Roy’s experiences of International market entry
Key issues in shaping enterprise public policy
How the work at JETCO impacts the trade between UK & India
Roy has led A4e’s international expansion from the UK into the EU, Middle East, Africa, India and Australia. Roy is currently working with policy makers in India, Latvia, Lithuania, Pakistan, Zambia and Spain to address labour market challenges.
Roy is a global speaker on skills, employment issues, education and entrepreneurship. Together with representatives of other social enterprises and NGOs, Roy is involved in the UN Disability agenda. He was previously Deputy Chief Executive of Merseyside TEC and Business Link, which he led for seven years. He became a non-executive Director at A4e in 2000 and played a significant role in developing A4e’s approach to delivering business support services under the Business Link brand.
Roy has a real passion for the role skills can play in alleviating poverty in India and he was delighted to be invited to join the UKIBC board in 2009. From this base, he has led the inception of the UK India Skills Forum and brought together more than 700 UK skills organisations that wish to trade and participate in the India Skills Mission to provide vocational training to 500 million people by 2022. He is now the Co Chair of the UK India Skills Forum and Joint Economic Trade Committee. He was elected to the British Polish Chamber of Commerce in 2008, and is served two terms as a Board Member