Graham Hasting-Evans

Managing Director
NOCN

Graham Hasting-Evans worked in Building and Construction before developing the skills strategy for the London 2012 Olympics. He was Programme Director at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills before joining NOCN in 2011. He has worked closely with the Government on apprenticeship reforms including the Apprenticeship Levy and has driven NOCN to become a top-two, Government-approved Apprentics Assessment Organisation (AAO). He regularly speaks at events in the UK and internationally and is often called upon for comment in Further Education sector media.

Ed McCann

Vice President 
ICE

Ed is a graduate of Imperial College. He started his career with Binnie & Partners where he specialised in river and water engineering and gained a Master’s Degree from the National University of Mexico. Ed has worked on over 50 projects around the world from sewerage schemes in India to child-friendly zones in a refugee camp in Kenya and the design of two 800t walking research stations in Antarctica.

He joined Expedition Engineering in 2002 helping to lead its development from a back bedroom start-up to Engineering Consultant of the Year 2011. Ed was Expedition’s Project Director for the 2012 Olympic Velodrome and the highly acclaimed Infinity Bridge both of which received the Institution of Structural Engineers Supreme Award for Excellence.
He is a Fellow, Trustee, Executive Board Member and Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Ed is involved in a number of cross industry initiatives and recently co-authored a report in to the costs and root causes of error in the UK Construction Industry.

He is actively involved in education and skills development particularly in relation to design and enterprise and is a Royal Academy Visiting Professor at UCL and Strathclyde Universities. He recently co-authored the RAEng’s Best Practice Guidance on Experience Led Learning, E-Learning and Industrial Engagement in Higher Education. He has also appeared on some 35 television documentaries about engineering and architecture.

Keith has nearly 50 years of experience in skills training and apprenticeships in construction and the built environment. During his career, Keith has developed and managed the largest employer based training provision in the construction sector, as well as participating in a number of working groups and expert panels that have helped to shape the skills landscape in the UK.

Keith is currently deputy chair of the Construction Trailblazer Steering Group and chairs the employer group that has developed new apprenticeship standards in the largest skilled occupation in the sector. Keith is married, with two children, three grandchildren and a large black cat, who doubles as the ‘Surrey Cheetah’!

Tanja works between the UK and Mongolia and so adaptability to change has become integral to her life and what she does. Over the years Tanja has worked in a number of diverse practices and is able to draw from this experience working on a number of significant urban regeneration and master planning projects, which has seen her play and advisory roll in Mongolia’s national “Green City” initiative and BIM Mongolia. Tanja is also involved with NAWIC representing women in construction at regional committee level and is involved with CIAT as an assessor and was the winner of the 2017 ‘Outstanding Woman in Construction’ award. 

Dan is a Senior Employer Engagement Strategy Manager at the National Apprenticeship Service. He is responsible for developing NAS’s large employer engagement strategy, in particular, strategies to calculate employer return on investment; widen participation and support public sector employers to meet their apprenticeship targets.

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