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 agenda on the role of elected members.
Alan has been an elected member of Norwich City Council for 17 years holding a number of senior positions, including leader of the council from 1993 to 1998. He is currently the Executive Member for Corporate Resources and Governance. Before joining the LGIU Alan worked for 25 years in comprehensive schools in London, and Norfolk including a year as an International Teaching Fellow in Victoria, Australia in the late 1980s. He continues his involvement in secondary education as an Associate Tutor, for the School of Education and Life Long Learning at the University of East Anglia.