• Deedee Doke - Recruiter Magazine, Editor
• Jacqueline Vigne - BT, Talent Acquisition Manager
• Carl Gilleard - AGR, Chief Executive
• Nicole Hörl - Hilton, Graduate Development Manager – UK, Europe & Ireland
• Donna Miller - Enterprise Rent-a-Car,
  Human Resources Director, European Operations
• Derek Osborn - CIPD Career and Counselling Forum, Chair
• Pauline McDonald - Swansea University, Head of Careers
• Sheila Lewis - Essex County Council, Senior Learning and Development Consultant
• Malcolm Craig - Improvement & Development Agency (I&DeA), ngdp Programme Manager
• Sophie Best - Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Graduate Recruitment Advisor,
• Katrina Rostrup - GradWeb, Director
• Fiona Sandford - London School of Economics and Political Science, Head of Careers
• Christina Kerr - PricewaterhouseCoopers, Graduate Recruitment Manager

Deedee Doke is Editor of Recruiter Magazine and of the just-launched Resourcing publication. Before joining Recruiter in 2005, she held the editorships of Employers’ Law and Global HR. DeeDee has also written on HR and recruitment issues for the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Guardian Unlimited and the Financial Times.

Jacqueline Vigne, Talent Acquisition Manager for BT, is responsible for developing the talent acquisition strategy for the Group which directly contributes to the success of one of the world's leading communications companies.
She has been responsible for transforming the undergraduate, graduate and MBA talent entry streams in this dynamic company, to deliver co-ordinated, diverse and integrated approach to talent acquisition that fulfils strategic business need.
This has included redesign of BT's Graduate Development Programme driven by function in response to business requirements and as an enabler to graduates demonstrating a broader more complex skill set early on in their careers.
A key part of this has been to identify, evaluate and import existing best HR practice around the talent acquisition agenda, leveraging BT's strategic partnerships, associates and other relationships.

Carl Gilleard is the Chief Executive for the Association of Graduate Recruiters. Before being appointed to this position in 1998 he was the Executive Director for METRA Services Ltd, a national recruitment consultancy charged with improving the recruitment and retention of graduates into local government.

Nicole Hörl is the Graduate Development Manager for Hilton UK, Ireland and Europe. She is responsible for Hilton’s Graduate Recruitment and Development and she manages the Elevator Programme, which is Hiltons award winning fast track graduate scheme.

Donna Miller is the Human Resources Director of European Operations for Enterprise Rent-A-Car. She began her career at Enterprise in the company’s management training program, where she worked with customers at a rental branch in the Southern California region. Donna sits on the board of the Association of Graduate Recruiters.

Derek Osborn is a Fellow of the CIPD and Co-Chair of the CIPD Forum on Counselling and Career Development. He has extensive experience in recruiting graduates, and has worked with companies including Royal and Sun Alliance, UK Atomic Energy Authority and the NHS Management Trainee Scheme. He is also International President of the Association of Career Professionals (ACP). As a career coach he has been delivering career development workshops and training career coaches for over 12 years, w it h groups of managers and graduates in different industry sectors in the UK , but also in Australia , Argentina and Singapore!

Pauline McDonald is Head of Careers at Swansea University. Pauline promotes self directed learning opportunities for students to fit with the expectations of the labour market in the 21st Century, and argues that graduate recruiters and educational providers have much to learn and share.

Sheila Lewis is the Senior Learning and Development Consultant for Essex County Council. She is responsible for graduate recruitment for the council. Sheila is the co-ordinator for the Essex Fast Track Management Programme which she has been involved with since it began 6 years ago.

Malcolm Craig is responsible for the day-to-day running of the first national management development programme in local government – the ngdp. He has over 20 years experience in recruitment, people development and programme/project management in the recruitment advertising sector.