Charlie Ball is the Head of Labour Market Intelligence at Jisc. He is the in-house specialist on the graduate labour market. He researches and analyses all things to do with post-18 employment, including regional economies, skills supply and demand and postgraduate issues, usually with a careers and employability perspective.

He sits on steering and advisory groups – including the Graduate Outcomes steering group and advisory bodies for AGCAS and the Institute of Student Employers. He is a Fellow of the National Institute of Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC) and a Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Before he came to Prospects, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry as a data specialist and before that as a postdoc – his PhD is actually in chemistry.