Understanding ModernGov Our Speakers
Our courses bring delegates face to face with prominent Parliamentarians, civil servants, Ministerial advisors and other highly experienced individuals from the front line in Parliament, Whitehall and the wider public sector. This ensures that the learning environment is interactive and that the information presented is grounded in the broadest range of experience, expertise and knowledge.
Stephen Pound MP (Lab, Ealing North)
Stephen Pound was elected as MP for Ealing North in May l997. Stephen is an active parliamentarian and his main interest areas are housing, Europe, Ireland, transport and local government. He was a member of the Greater London Authority Select Committee and gave his maiden speech on the bill...Read More
Margaret Hodge MP - Chair, Public Accounts Committee
Margaret Hodge has been the Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994 and is currently chair of the Public Accounts Committee. She was the first Minister for Children in 2003 and was Minister of State for Culture and Tourism at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...Read More
David Cairns, 1966-2011, MP (Lab, Inverclyde) – Former Minister of State for Scotland
The late David Cairns became a Labour MP for Inverclyde in 2001 after parliament reversed a law that prevented former Catholic priests from taking up a seat in the House of Commons. In the early 1990s he served as a Catholic priest for three years at churches in Scotland and London. He left the priesthood to become a director of the Christian...Read More
Rt. Hon Michael Meacher MP (Lab, Oldham West and Royton) - Former Minister of State for the Environment
Michael Meacher has been the Labour MP for Oldham West and Royton since the 1970 General Election. During his time in politics he has served in the Governments of Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan as Under Secretary for Industry and Under Secretary for Health and Social Security. In 1983 he became a member of the Shadow Cabinet,...Read More
Tom Harris MP (Lab, Glasgow South) – Former Transport Minister
In 1990 Tom was recruited by the Labour Party in Scotland as its first ever full-time press and publicity officer, where he oversaw the party's media strategy in three parliamentary by-elections (Paisley North and South in November 1990 and Kincardine & Deeside a year later), the 1992 general election and the district council elections the same year...Read More
Lord Norton of Louth (Con) - Professor of Government, University of Hull
Lord Norton of Louth is Professor of Government, and Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies, at the University of Hull. When he was appointed to the chair in 1986, he was - at 35 - the youngest professor of politics in the country. He is author or editor of 26 books, including Parliament in British Politics,...Read More
Baroness Harris of Richmond (Lib Dem) - Whip
Angela Harris is a Liberal Democrat Life Peer and has been since 1999. Since entering the House of Lords she has chaired the European Union Select sub-Committee F and has been a member of the European Union Select Committee, Offices Committee and Refreshment Sub-Committee. She is a Whip for the Liberal Democrat group of Peers,...Read More
Alan Waters - Policy Analyst, Local Government Information Unit
Alan Waters is a Policy Analyst working in the Centre for Service Transformation. He has extensive experience of delivering training and development programmes for councillors on a wide range of topics including - community leadership, local government finance, partnership working, scrutiny and the impact of the community empowerment...Read More
Jane White – Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments
Currently one of two advisers to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Merits of Statutory Instruments, which publishes a weekly commentary on all the orders and regulations laid before Parliament by the Government (approx 1200 per year). Her role is to investigate the policy behind this "secondary legislation" for the information...Read More
Fergus Reid – Clerk, Justice Select Committee
Fergus Reid has had a longstanding career in the civil service. For 15 years he has been a House of Commons Clerk. He has worked on the Health, Foreign Affairs and Standards and Priveleges Committees. He also had a leading role in the creation of the Environmental Audit Committee and in the running of the Culture, Media and Sports...Read More
Linda Screen - Former Head of Policy and Performance at Dorset County Council
Linda is an experienced speaker on local and regional government, the third sector and Local Strategic Partnerships. A former Head of Policy and Performance at Bridgnorth District and Dorset County Council with interim experience in South Gloucestershire Unitary Authority and working with Penwith and Bath & NE Somerset Council, Linda's experience includes senior management,...Read More
Cllr Keith Moffitt (Lib Dem) - Camden Borough Council
Councillor Keith Moffitt became Leader of the Council following the local elections in May 2006, a post he held until the May 2010 election. He was first elected as a Liberal Democrat Councillor for West Hampstead in 1994 and has been a resident of the area for over 30 years. In his role as Leader of Camden Council he identifies key priorities as sustainability, improving the responsiveness of the Council...Read More
Dr Theresa Crowley - Head of Strategy and Research, National Audit Office
Dr Theresa Crowley is Head of Strategy and Research at the National Audit Office. Previously, she was Research Director at NESTA , the UK innovation catalyst organisation. Her earlier career was in evaluation of public policy and programmes at the Policy Studies Institute, the Cabinet Office and HM Treasury...Read More
Ian Fifield PhD CPFA
Ian is a CIPFA qualified accountant and an experienced trainer and facilitator, with more than 20 years experience of financial management in the public services. Ian specialises in financial management training for local authorities and other public service organisations and has also worked as an accountant in local government and an external auditor for both local government...Read More
Sylvia Thomson - Former Senior Civil Servant
Sylvia worked for 18 years at HM Treasury, including spells advising on the Aid Budget and a variety of other public expenditure roles. During this time, she led a Cross-cutting Review of Government Services for Small Business in 2002. She also spent 3 years working on the Sure Start programme to help young children and their parents in severely disadvantaged areas...Read More
Dr Scott Kelly - Chief of Staff to John Hayes MP
Scott Kelly works in parliament as Chief of Staff to John Hayes MP, the Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills. He also lectures in British Politics at the Centre for Parliamentary Studies ...Read More
Sir Bruce Liddington - Director General, EACT
Former Schools Commissioner Sir Bruce Liddington has enjoyed a successful teaching career, during which as Head of Northampton School for Boys, he transformed the performance of the schools before leaving to join the Department for Education and Skills in 1999. ...Read More
Ruth Thorlby - Fellow, The King's Fund
Ruth Thorlby's current interests include inequities in access to health care, particularly those experienced by some ethnic minority groups. She recently completed a study of the way that patients choose HIV units in London, and contributed to the King's Fund Independent Audit of the NHS ...Read More
Rachel Wolf - Director, New Schools Network
Rachel Wolf is the director of the New Schools Network, a London based charity she founded in 2009. The Network aims to improve the quality of education - particularly for the most deprived - by increasing the number of independent, innovative schools within the state sector...Read More
Dawn Mongaham - Senior Manager, ICO
A graduate of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Dawn spent 20 years with the BBC; she joined the Information Commissioners Office in 2002 as a Senior Policy Manager. She has responsibility for developing and maintaining key stakeholder relationships in ....Read More
Jonathan Morgan AM (Con, Cardiff North) - Chair, Public Accounts Committee Services
Jonathan Morgan AM was elected to the Welsh Assembly in 1999. He served as education spokesman during the first assembly term and was then handed the health brief in 2003. He was the Shadow Minister for Health and Social Services in the Assembly...Read More
Sophie Taylor - Private Secretary to Rt Hon Ed Balls MP, DCSF
Sophie has been Private Secretary to Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families for 2 years. She works on all aspects of the schools portfolio for the Secretary of State, including primary and secondary school standards, testing...Read More
Professor Robert Hazell - Director, Constitution Unit University College London
Professor Robert Hazell is Director of the Constitution Unit. He founded the Unit in 1995 as an independent think-tank specialising in constitutional reform. Before that he was Director of the Nuffield Foundation for six years, and before that a senior civil servant in the Home Office...Read More
Catherine Staite - Director, OPM
Catherine leads the OPM Organisational Development and Policy Team. Her main areas of interest asupporting Local Strategic Partnerships; Local Area Agreements; performance management; supporting organisations through change; integration of organisation and services and; efficiency..Read More
Professor David Myddelton - Chairman, Institute of Economic Affairs
Professor David Myddelton has been Professor of Finance and Accounting at the Cranfield School of Management since 1972 (Emeritus since retiring in 2005). He has written books on the British tax system, inflation accounting and accounting standards... Read More
Professor Len Shackleton - Dean, Royal Docks Business School
Professor J. R. (Len) Shackleton is Dean of the Royal Docks Business School. He was previously Dean of the Business School at the University of Westminster and has taught at several universities....Read More
Detlef Golletz - South East England Development Agency
Detlef has been practising in Planning and Transport for over 25 years, firstly in the private sector, then for a number of public sector authorities. For the past 10 years his work in the public sector concentrated on regeneration and transport infrastructure....Read More
Nick Temple - Director of Policy and Communications, School for Social Entrepeneurs
As Policy and Communications Director, Nick is responsible for all SSE's policy work, evaluation, research, external communications, and so on (including all press, media and online work). Previously, he was the Network Director in charge of sustaining and expanding the SSE franchise around the UK...Read More
Professor Colin Talbot - Professor of Public Policy and Management, Manchester Business School
Colin's main area of expertise in is public services and public management reform. He has recently completed major international comparative studies on the creation of arms-length agencies (for the UK government and ESRC); of the use of performance reporting systems (for the National Audit Office)...Read More
Matt Jarratt - Membership and Communications Manager, Social Enterprise London
Matt is Senior Business Consultant and he has authored Transitions, the first guide for local authority workers wishing to establish social enterprises out of the public sector...Read More
Katie Melville - Former Private Secretary to Lord Davies of Abersoch
Katie currently works on banking competition and competitiveness in the Business Finance and Tax team at BIS. Until the May election, she was Private Secretary to Lord Davies of Abersoch, Minister for Trade, Investment and Small Business, where she initially led the team...Read More
Tony Collings OBE - Principal Director, Electronic Commerce Associates (ECA) Limited
After 35 years in the Army Tony took early retirement having been CIO of LAND Command to further his interest in electronic commerce in a trusted environment; establishing Electronic Commerce Associates Limited in 1998.He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society...Read More
Alima Qureshi - Partnership Manager, London Borough of Hackney
Alima has substantial record of achievement across the voluntary and public sector in the field of performance and policy and lead Councils to improve significantly its work on hate crime, equality and diversity, domestic violence and partnership engagement...Read More
Leanne Wood AM (Plaid, South Wales Central)
Member of the Scrutiny of the First Minister Committee and Legislation Committee No. 5. Leanne Wood was first elected to the Assembly in May 2003. She is Chair of Cwm Cynon Women’s Aid Board of Trustees and is Plaid Cymru’s Party Spokesperson on Sustainability...Read More
Sue Markey - Senior Policy Officer, Information Commissioner's Office
Sue Markey is a Senior Policy Officer in the Strategic Liaison Division at the Information Commissioner’s Office. Her role is to liaise with key stakeholders in the central government sector on freedom of information and data protection issues...Read More
Dane Wright - IT Strategy Manager, Brent Council
Dane Wright has spent most of his career in Information Technology in both private and public sectors. He has been involved primarily in systems development and information management and is currently responsible for Brent Council’s...Read More
Shivangi Medhi - Equality and Diversity Officer, London Borough of Hackney
Shivangi Medhi joined Hackney Council in 2007 as the Equality and Diversity Policy Officer (Service Delivery) and has 6 years experience in Local Government. Since joining Hackney, she has been instrumental in helping the Council improve to the ‘Achieving’ level of the Equality Framework for Local Government. She has improved the equality impact assessment process...Read More
Judith Fitzsimons - Domestic Violence Policy Co-ordinator, London Borough of Hackney
Judith Fitzsimons joined Hackney Council in 2008 as the Domestic Violence Policy Co-ordinator. She currently co-ordinates the Domestic Violence Policy and Operations Group (formerly the DV Forum) which is central to Hackney’s Integrated Partnership Response to Domestic and Gender Violence...Read More
Stephen Noon - Chief Policy Adviser to the Scottish National Party
Stephen is currently Chief Policy Adviser to the Scottish National Party (since April 2010) and member of the SNP Campaign Committee with responsibility for Message and Policy Development...Read More
Paul McCaffrey - Former Private Secretary to Lord Mandelson
Paul currently works on communications strategy at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Between August 2008 and November 2009 he was Private Secretary to Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills...Read More
Ann Beasley - Director of General Finance, Ministry of Justice
Ann Beasley was appointed as Director General Finance for the Ministry of Justice in February 2010. Ann has worked in the public sector for 30 years, with a career spanning periods in HM Customs and Excise, Civil Aviation Authority and the Metropolitan Police. She joined HM Prison Service in 2002 and took up the role of Finance Director in 2003.....Read More
Judith Smyth - Director of Commissioning and Governance, Office for Public Management (OPM)
Judith is a highly experienced consultant in who is at her best when providing support and challenge that will lead to change. She keeps up to date with changing public policy, political, environmental, technical and social change and always works in the public interest helping people to apply simple principles of public governance, commissioning, personalisation and service provision to the realities of their work...Read More
Mark Johnson - Managing Director and founder, TPP Law Limited
Mark Johnson is the Managing Director and founder of TPP Law Limited, a law firm specialised in developing innovative and cutting-edge partnership contracts and new delivery models for public services across a wide variety of sectors including health, social care and welfare services, local government and education...Read More
Stewart Stevenson - MSP, Former Minister
Stewart Stevenson was elected an an SNP member to represent Banff & Buchan in 2001. This followed 30 years in technology with Bank of Scotland from which he retired in 1999 as Director of Technology Innovation...Read More
David Lammy MP - Former Minister for Culture
David Lammy has served as a Minister in the Department of Health, the Department of Constitutional Affairs, Minister for Culture in the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Minister for Skills with responsibility for the Commission for Employment and Skills....Read More
Karen Cunningham - FOIA Team Manager, BIS
Karen is currently the FOIA Team Manager within the Information Rights Unit of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. As an experienced FOIA Adviser herself, Karen leads a team of Advisers who provide advice and assistance on dealing with FOIA requests to policy officials throughout the Department...Read More
Margaret Elliot OBE - Founder, Sunderland Home Care Associates
Margaret Elliott OBE has been involved in co-operative/employee owned development since the 1970s, first as founder member of a worker’s co-operative shop, Little Women, and then in a small Home Care co-operative, Little Women Household Services Ltd...Read More
Nick Ramsay - AM for Monmouth and Shadow Minister for Finance
Nick has previously worked as a researcher for the Welsh Conservatives' Assembly leader Nick Bourne AM and, prior to that, for former Monmouth AM David Davies. He is involved in charity work and a member of Lions Clubs International as well as being a governor of two schools...Read More
Pat Samuel CBE - formally Deputy Director, Office for Civil Society, Cabinet Office
Pat had a long career in the civil service - both in HM Treasury and in the Cabinet Office, working on domestic and international finance policy. From 2007 to 2011, she was Deputy Director in the Cabinet Office in the Office of the Third Sector and The Office for Civil Society...Read More
Martin Kinsella - Chief Executive, P3
Martin Kinsella has been Chief Executive of P3 since 2002. The organisation exists to deliver a range of services and create opportunities for vulnerable and disadvantaged people: offering effective and lasting routes out of social exclusion and homelessness...Read More
Johann Lamont - MSP for Glasgow Pollok
Johann is the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in the Scottish Parliament with responsibility for housing, communities and equalities. Additionally, she is Labour's Older People's Champion. Johann has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the constituency of Glasgow Pollok since 1999...Read More
Mark Drakeford - AM for Cardiff West
Mark Drakeford is the Labour Assembly Member for Cardiff West. He was professor of social policy and applied social sciences at Cardiff University. For ten years he was the Cabinet's social policy adviser...Read More
Sarah Jones - Former PS to Lord Drayson and Pat MacFadden
Sarah started work for the Department for Education and Skills in Further Education policy, later the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), working on university and schools partnerships amongst other things. She has worked for Lord Drayson...Read More
Roy Blatchford - Founding Director, National Education Trust
Roy Blatchford is Director of the National Education Trust, an independent foundation dedicated to improving the quality of education nationwide, shaping its future, and working to help close the achievement gap...Read More
Mei Yee Hui - Business Research Manager, Social Enterprise London
Mei joined Social Enterprise London (SEL) in April 2002 and works as a Business Adviser. In her role at SEL, Mei has worked to develop social enterprise strategies and pilot social enterprises in the field of childcare, and currently provides one-to-one business support for start-up and existing social enterprise organisations...Read More
Baron Rennard of Wavertree (Lib Dem)
Christopher Rennard, Baron Rennard, is a frequent contributor in the House of Lords, where he concentrates on Constitutional Affairs, Localism issues and health matters related to his interests in diabetes and the cessation of smoking...Read More
Clare Ballard-Yawson, Centre & Family Services Manager, The Weir Link
Clare Ballard-Yawson currently works as The Weir Link Centre & Family Services Manager. Her hands-on experience with the Weir Link centre has given Clare extensive personal experience in the mutual sector...Read More
June O'Sullivan, CEO, London Early Years Foundation
An inspiring speaker and regular media commentator on Early Years, Social Enterprise and Child Poverty, June has been instrumental in achieving a major strategic and cultural shift for the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF), resulting in a significant increase in both profile and profitability over the past 5 years. ...Read More
Mark Isherwood, AM for North Wales, Shadow Communities and Housing Minister
Mark Isherwood is Welsh Conservative Assembly Member for North Wales. Following re-election to the Assembly in 2007, Mark became the Shadow Minister for Social Justice, Equality and Housing. He remains Shadow Minister for Communities and Housing, with special responsibility for North Wales. ...Read More
David Torrance, Freelance journalist, Author, Political commentator
David Torrance currently works as an Edinburgh-based freelance writer, journalist, public relations consultant and broadcaster, covering politics for STV, supplying obituaries to the Herald and writing historical comment pieces for the Scotsman...Read More
Dr. Richard Pawson, Founder, Naked Objects Group
Dr Pawson spent 14 years with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) latterly as a Vice President and Global Director of Research, specialising in the design of architectures to support business agility...Read More
Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride
Linda was first elected to the Scottish Parliament in May 1999 as MSP for Central Scotland. In 2011 she was elected as MSP for East Kilbride. Linda is a Fellow the Chartered Institute of Housing and an Honorary Fellow the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland....Read More
Christian Senior, Policy Officer, ICO
Christian Senior is a Policy Officer at the Information Commissioner's Office. Since joining the ICO in 2008 he has drafted and consulted on the ICO's Privacy Notices and Personal Information Online codes of practice and contributed to the ICO's work on proposed government legislation... Read More
Gerald Taylor, Senior Lecturer, University of Glamorgan
Gerald is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glamorgan, specialising in Welsh politics, intergovernmental relations and the Labour party. His teaching interests include Political Thought in Context, and Globalisation: Europe, Modernity and Progress... Read More
Andy Kerr, CEO of Sense Scotland and Former MSP
Andy Kerr was first appointed Minister for Finance and Public Services in the Scottish Executive in November 2001 and moved to become Minister for Health and Community Care in October 2004. As Health Minister, Kerr oversaw significant NHS restructuring... Read More
Paul Lynch, Senior CRE Operations Officer, Bournemouth University
Paul has been involved in HE Research Admin since 1990 at Warwick, Imperial and now Bournemouth. Throughout that time he has been extensively engaged with EC funding - since FP3 - across all academic disciplines and schemes, both in pre- and post-award and have, therefore, the wounds and wisdom to talk authoritatively about the tribulations of EU funding.... Read More
David Fairhurst, Director, Mutual Ventures
David is a specialist in the development and implementation of alternative public service delivery models ranging from cooperatives and other forms of social enterprise to Government trading organisations. He is skilled in financial and economic analysis and has extensive experience of preparing and evaluating business cases... Read More
Julie Young, Business Manager, Anglian Community Enterprise
Julie is Business Manager for Anglian Community Enterprise (ACE). ACE is a Community Interest Company, limited by shares and employee owned. ACE provides NHS Community Services and some Learning Disabilities Therapy and Specialist Nursing. It provides services across North East Essex to a population of some 318,000, with some other Learning Disabilities Services across North Essex... Read More
Matt Grainger, Assistant Private Secretary to Mark Prisk MP, Minister for Business and Enterprise
Matt is Assistant Private Secretary to Mark Prisk MP, Minister for Business and Enterprise at BiS. Formerly Ministerial Correspondence Facilitator in BiS, he has worked for two Ministers from different administrations: The Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP (Minister for Digital Britain) and Mark Prisk MP (Minister for Business and Enterprise).... Read More
Mark Bee, Leader of Suffolk County Council
Mark Bee is the leader of Suffolk county council, having taken over in May this year following seven years as leader of Waveney district council. During his time at Waveney, he steered the authority through difficult times, delivering big improvements to what had been a low-performing council... Read More
Marie Snelling, Tri-borough Portfolio Director, LB Hammersmith & Fulham
Marie Snelling has a mixed private and public sector background. She started her Local Government career at Westminster City Council where she tackled a range of operational and strategic roles. Marie also worked with the PwC Local Government team where she advised Councils across the country on the development and delivery of large scale, cross cutting and complex transformation programmes... Read More
Jonathan Jenkins, CEO, The Social Investment Bank
Jonathan Jenkins is CEO of The Social Investment Business, the largest lender in the UK social investment market.Jonathan has over 15 years experience in fundraising for SMEs from his City career, which included time at a UK merchant bank, and culminated in his role as managing director of Plus Markets, a stock exchange created by his family to enable access to capital for smaller companies. In his time at Plus, over 500 companies raising over £1bn.... Read More
Ian Bates, Support Services Director, Frame of Mind
With his wife Theresa, Ian runs 'Frame of Mind', a CIC aimed at using the frame-making industry to help include the socially excluded. Established in 2006, Frame of Mind is an award-winning social enterprise. This young company has already won awards for training, innovation and craft excellence, and was shortlisted for the Royal Bank of Scotland's Social Enterprise 100 Awards in 2010... Read More
Dom Potter, Director, Transition Institute
Prior to his role as Director of the Transition Institute, Dom was Head of Innovation at Social Enterprise London. Dom led SEL's work on public service reform, health, education and the 2012 Olympic legacy for social enterprise. He has worked with a number of organisations in transition, helping them to establish appropriate business models, governance structures and change management processes... Read More
Catherine Mitchell-Reid, CEO, ECA Group
Catherine has 30 years of experience in global operational senior management, sales, marketing and specialised consulting. She has particular expertise in global leadership, operational optimisation including commercial effectiveness, new product development and global launch operations.... Read More
Fraser Smith, Head of Practice, Business Assurance
Fraser has been involved in IT/IS/IA within the Ministry of Defence and other Government departments including the Security Services for the last 35 years before joining the ECA Group in January 2009. He is a highly skilled HMG Accreditor and CLAS consultant with a breadth of complementary skills of complex network and IT security technologies. As an overall security professional he has a huge depth of knowledge both at the theoretical and the practical level, combined with a proven managerial background... Read More
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