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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Hunada Nouss, Director General Finance and CFO, DWP
The Director General, Finance is the Principal Finance Officer of the Department and Head of Profession for the Department's finance staff. Hunada has responsibility for planning, finance and performance management, procurement, estates provision, risk and assurance across the Department... Read More
Alan Brookes, Headteacher, Fulston Manor School
Alan Brookes is head teacher of Fulston Manor School, which recently achieved an Outstanding Ofsted rating under the new inspections framework. Fulston Manor School is a secondary school with academy status in Sittingbourne, Kent, teaching 11 to 18 year olds.... Read More
Rick Muir, Associate Director of Public Service Reform, IPPR
Rick leads IPPR's work on improving and reforming public services. He comments regularly on these issues in the print and broadcast media. He has recently appeared on the Today Programme, PM, Newsnight, BBC News Channel and Sky News and has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph... Read More
Peter Collins, Deputy Head, Slough & Eton College
Alan Brookes is head teacher of Fulston Manor School, which recently achieved an Outstanding Ofsted rating under the new inspections framework. Fulston Manor School is a secondary school with academy status in Sittingbourne, Kent, teaching 11 to 18 year olds.... Read More
Dr. Corrina Dickson, Senior Research Development Officer, Bournemouth University
Dr Corrina Dickson is the Senior Research Development Officer for EU related matters at Bournemouth University. Corrina is involved in writing university strategy on EU engagement, writing EU research proposals, managing EU grants, etc. She is a member of several Brussels based UK networks and involved in consultations around new funding programmes... Read More
Hugh Henry, MSP for Renfrewshire South
Hugh was appointed Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in the Scottish Executive in 2001, and moved to become Deputy Minister for Social Justice in 2002. He was appointed Deputy Minister for Justice after the Scottish Parliamentary Election, 2003, and became Minister for Education in 2006. He retained the education brief in opposition after the 2007 election... Read More
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
Hazel Grant, Partner, Bristows
Hazel is an IT lawyer, specialising in IT procurements and information law. Her work regularly involves advising on commercial and procurement law issues including structuring public procurements, handling complaints and drafting agreements in line with government guidance. Her clients range from central government departments and agencies to global IT service providers... Read More
Seb Elsworth, Director of Partnerships and Communications, The Social Investment Business
Seb Elsworth is currently Director of Partnerships and Communications at The Social Investment Business, the UK's largest social investor. Seb, also director of strategy at the chief executives body Acevo, joined The Social Investment Business on secondment for a year as director of special projects... Read More
Celia Richardson, Director or Policy and Communications, Social Enterprise UK
Celia Richarson, Head of Policy and Comms at Social Enterprise UK, spent sixteen years in the not-for-profit sector in the UK before being attracted into social enterprise more recently.... Read More
Gabrielle Cohen, Assistant Auditor General, NAO
Gabrielle has been an Assistant Auditor General since 2005 having joined the NAO in 1987 and trained as an accountant.Gabrielle is responsible for leading our stakeholder relations. This includes responsibility for all our interactions with Parliament and developing a strategic approach to the management of NAO relations with the bodies subject to its scrutiny and other key external stakeholders. ... Read More
Andy Rennison, Assistant Director in Hammersmith & Fulham Children's Services, LB Hammersmith & Fulham
Andy is Assistant Director of Children's Services, as well as Programme Director BSF, PCP and Schools Funding, for Hammersmith & Fulham council.In partnership wtih OPM, Andy has led the spin-out of the childrens' services department from LB Hammersmith and Fulham, and it's upcoming establishment as a mutual... Read More
Hilary Thompson, Chief Executive, OPM
As Chief Executive of OPM, Hilary's main focus is on improvement in services, including strategy, commissioning and organisational development. Hilary's other areas of expertise include: children's services, local government and education; change processes; and working with leaders and managers on organisational development and performance improvement... Read More
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Forthcoming Events
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Strategic career planning is an essential skill for motivated individuals. Career progression in the public sector is increasingly challenging, but for those with a clear strategic direction, there are still opportunities to progress, advance and develop. Applying your skills and proactively overcoming personal limiting assumptions can give enormous benefits to the individual and the organisation. Read More
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By the end of the day, delegates will understand the context, the current procedure and the emerging trends surrounding the process. Exemptions and vexatious requests will be dealt with, and delegates will leave feeling confident in their ability to respond to FOI requests correctly and efficiently. Read More
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Throughout the day, delegates will develop the idea of a mutual as an alternative to ‘business as usual’ and will leave with a complete overview of the mutual model, how to implement it and how to support it in the future.. Read More
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Join communications consultant Sandra Miller on this one-day course to maximise your verbal ability. Sandra has over 15 years' experience as a communication skills consultant, trainer and coach, working with bodies like Greenwich PCT and Bexley Council and the BBC, as well as leading private firms Deloitte and JP Morgan. Read More
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