PETER ELIAS

Peter Elias is a Professor at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick.  He is a labour economist and has worked in a variety of research areas over the last 30 years.  These range from the evaluation of large-scale government programmes, statistical monitoring of the status of particular groups in the labour market, the study of occupational change and the relationship between further and higher education, vocational training and labour market outcomes.  Related to these research areas, he has developed methods for the measurement and analysis of labour market dynamics and has a keen interest in the classification of labour market activities.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.  From October 2004 he has acted as the ESRC Strategic Advisor for Data Resources.