Employee Benefits Awards judges

The Employee Benefits Awards 2008 was judged by a distinguished panel of judges, including three senior editors from Employee Benefits magazine and Charles Cotton, adviser on reward and employment conditions at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Chair Judges

Amanda Wilkinson - editor, Employee Benefits magazine

Amanda is editor of Employee Benefits magazine, a position she has held since November 2005. She is responsible for the editorial strategy of the magazine, including its supplements, research reports and spin-off publication. She also oversees the content of www.employeebenefits.co.uk and its regular news alerts. Before joining the magazine, she worked at Marketing Week as deputy editor and prior to that as a reporter on the Hackney Gazette in London.

Debi O'Donovan - editorial director, Employee Benefits

Debi is the editorial director of the UK's leading benefits magazine Employee Benefits. Prior to that she was editor of the magazine for six years. She is responsible for editorial strategy across the Employee Benefits brand, as well as for new product development. She joined Centaur Media as deputy editor of Employee Benefits in 1998 and was launch editorial director of Corporate Adviser magazine in 2005.

Debbie Lovewell - deputy editor, Employee Benefits magazine

Debbie is the deputy editor of Employee Benefits magazine and is responsible for writing, editing and commissioning features as well as overseeing supplements and research, and providing input on www.employeebenefits.co.uk. She joined Employee Benefits magazine in 2003 as a staff writer, progressing to features editor within two years, and by 2005 was made assistant editor. She has become a recognised writer in the field of benefits and reward.