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John Cooke – Former Senior Civil Servant, Department of Trade and Industry

John Cooke is an international economic relations consultant. He is Chairman of the Liberalisation of Trade in Services (LOTIS) Committee at International Financial Services London (IFSL). He is also Deputy Chairman of SITPRO (the UK agency for trade facilitation and simplification of international trade procedures) and Co-Chairman of the Financial Leaders Working Group (which offers global private sector views on financial services liberalisation).

From 1997 to 2003 John Cooke was Head of International Relations at the Association of British Insurers. His earlier career was with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) where most recently he was Head of the International Trade Policy Division during the UK's EU Presidency in 1992, Chairman of the OECD Trade Committee, UK Governor of the Common Fund for Commodities and leader of the UK delegation to the Ninth UN Conference on Trade and Development.
 
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Understanding Public Sector Finance  28 February 2012

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Innovative Public Services 28 February 2012

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