Best known for her Science and Technology reporting on programmes like Tomorrow's World and Inside Out, BBC Journalist Maggie Philbin has worked in radio and television for 30 years and is also a powerful advocate for championing the future of young people.

Many of the everyday gadgets we now take for granted were demonstrated live on television for the very first time by Maggie – the first truly mobile phone, the first car navigation system, the first fax machine, even the first supermarket barcode reader.

Maggie devised and runs the award winning TeenTech interactive events which bring young people, scientists and technology companies together to show teenagers the wealth of possible careers that are out there.

Maggie also sits on the panel of the New Engineering Foundation, which supports the development of Vocational Education and helps lecturers in Further Education get cutting edge career development in industry.

Maggie says: "WorldSkills is such a powerful way of showing people the skills which will be needed most in the future. It's also a great opportunity to show off the talent of young people, who are working to an extremely high standard in very different areas. It's a real eye-opener. We can also see how we measure up to the rest of the world."