Phil Loveder is the Executive Manager, Inform and Engage at the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in Australia. The NCVER is Australia’s premier vocational education and training research and statistics agency.

Phil has over thirty-five years’ experience in educational research, business development and in the commercialisation of knowledge-based services in VET and higher education. He has a particular interest in researching industry models of education and in the funding and financing of training. Phil was recently the lead expert for UNESCO’s Bridging Innovation and Learning in TVET New Qualifications and Competencies (NQC) policy project and was research leader of a major international study on measuring the enterprise returns to investment in training. He is also the regional coordinator of UNESCO’s UNEVOC program in the Pacific Island region.

He was formerly an adviser to the APEC integrated referencing project for skills recognition and mobility and consultant to the Indonesian Department of State Development (BAPPENAS) Labour Market Forecasting for Education Policy project. He was also lead facilitator of an Australian government funded management immersion program for senior research and analytics staff of the National Skills Research Division (NSRD) of the NSDA (New Delhi) and the Advanced Training Institute (ATI) in Hyderabad. 

In addition, he maintains an interest in technology education and recently authored papers on vocational education and the innovation system, new qualifications and competencies and Apprenticeships and Industry 4.0.