All posts by Matt Ross

About Matt Ross

Matt is Global Government Forum's Contributing Editor, providing direction and support on topics, products and audience interests across GGF’s editorial, events and research operations. He has been a journalist and editor since 1995, beginning in motoring and travel journalism – and combining the two in a 30-month, 30-country 4x4 expedition funded by magazine photo-journalism. Between 2002 and 2008 he was Features Editor of Haymarket news magazine Regeneration & Renewal, covering urban regeneration, economic growth and community development; and from 2008 to 2014 he was the Editor of UK magazine and website Civil Service World, then Editorial Director for Public Sector – both at political publishing house Dods. He has also worked as Director of Communications at think tank the Institute for Government.

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  The centre cannot hold: the future of UK regional policy

  Successive governments have failed to reverse the UK’s regional inequalities and over-centralisation. At a Strand Group event last week, some of those who’ve tried to do so set out their

  • Posted October 31, 2023
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  Canada’s Public Service Data Challenge opens for entries

  Canada’s second Public Service Data Challenge has today opened for entries, with public servants across the workforce invited to send in their ideas for how government could make better use

  • Posted October 24, 2023
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  UK has ‘gone backwards’ on standards in public life, says ethics chief

  A year after Lord Evans took on the job of chair of the UK’s Committee on Standards in Public Life, Boris Johnson became prime minister – making the former spy

  • Posted October 23, 2023
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  The digital souk: reforming procurement in Morocco

  Determined to increase transparency and competition in public procurement, Morocco’s government is pushing through an ambitious set of reforms. At the 2023 Global Government Finance Summit, the country’s finance chief

  • Posted October 22, 2023
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  ‘It harms taxpayer compliance to see a lot of tax evasion and avoidance going on’: how governments can reshape obsolete tax systems

  The digital economy, advanced tax avoidance techniques, organised fraud and the demands of net zero has rendered our international tax architecture increasingly obsolete. At the Global Government Finance Summit, finance

  • Posted October 15, 2023
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  Challenging the accepted wisdom: why economics isn’t ‘up to the job’ of tackling climate change

  Finance leaders are key to the economic and governmental changes required to reach net zero – but the Global Government Finance Summit heard fears that they have not yet understood

  • Posted October 1, 2023
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  The fight for the skies: how governments are battling in the era of astropolitics

  In his 2015 book Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall detailed the historical and geographical factors that explain Putin’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. Now, he warns, the global race for resources

  • Posted September 26, 2023
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  The Celtic tiger awakens: lessons from Ireland’s ‘weird economy’

  The fallout of the financial crisis silenced the roars of Ireland’s ‘Celtic tiger’ economy. Now it’s back, its growth – and its growing pains – offer useful lessons for other

  • Posted September 24, 2023
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  UK cabinet secretary salutes COVID data heroes and discusses potential of AI at Public Service Data Live

  “There were many public service heroes in COVID, but I always make sure that statisticians and our data experts get a shout out,” Simon Case, the UK’s cabinet secretary has

  • Posted September 14, 2023
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  Open, inclusive, transparent: rebuilding public trust in government

  At the Global Government Summit in Singapore, civil service leaders from 16 countries met to explore five of the biggest challenges facing their countries – debating in their fifth session

  • Posted August 15, 2023
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