All posts by Natalie Leal

About Natalie Leal

Natalie is a freelance journalist whose work has been published by The Sun Online, The Guardian, Novara Media, Positive News, and Welfare Weekly, among others. She also writes reports and case studies on global business trends for behavioural insights agency, Canvas8. Prior to working as a journalist Natalie worked for the public sector in social services for several years. She switched careers in 2013 after winning a fully funded NCTJ in a national writing competition. She holds a Masters degree in social anthropology from Sussex University where she specialised in processes of social change and international conflict and reconciliation processes.

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  Calculated risks: the pathfinding role of government finance chiefs

  Finance staff are playing an ever bigger role in strategic decision-making – helping to spot the financial risks in new policies or reforms. At the Global Government Finance Summit, Natalie

  • Posted February 16, 2022
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  US sets out federal contractor COVID-19 vaccine mandate rules

  Employees working for US government contractors must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by 8 December according to new rules issued by the White House. Guidance released on Friday by the

  • Posted September 28, 2021
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  Biden administration release details on vaccine mandate for federal workers

  The Biden administration has confirmed all federal workers must be fully vaccinated by 22 November or face the possibility of disciplinary action “up to and including removal from federal service”.

  • Posted September 23, 2021
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  International GovTech maturity “lower than expected”, says World Bank

  Despite increasing investment across the world, GovTech maturity is “lower than expected” in most countries and digital citizen engagement lacking, research from the World Bank has found. While most governments

  • Posted September 22, 2021
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  US forms expert committee to advise on artificial intelligence

  The US is establishing a National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) to advise president Biden and federal agencies on artificial intelligence (AI) research, ethics and development. The Department of Commerce

  • Posted September 15, 2021
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  Estonia calls for tech innovators to collaborate on new government services

  The Estonian government is granting tech-driven organisations and entrepreneurs access to its technological resources on the proviso that it can have free use of any resulting tools and services. It

  • Posted September 14, 2021
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  Building for the future: delivering infrastructure for the post-COVID world

  Infrastructure is key to economic recovery – but the pandemic has raised big questions around both public sector finances, and the kinds of infrastructure that will be required. At the

  • Posted February 17, 2021
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  Risk versus reward: why the public sector should fail more often

  At Innovation 2020, senior leaders discussed the opportunities and challenges associated with commissioning and deploying new technologies. Governments’ risk-averse cultures are a barrier to developing public services, they agreed –

  • Posted December 11, 2020
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  UK considers in-house consultancy amidst No10 in-fighting

  A new element of the UK’s civil service reform agenda emerged this week, as one of the project’s principal architects announced his departure from government. Dominic Cummings, the former Vote

  • Posted November 13, 2020
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  The UK government needs a stronger centre, says former Cabinet Office minister

  Former Cabinet Office minister, Francis Maude, has said the UK should strengthen the centre of government and suggested potentially creating a new Department for Prime Minister. Maude, who has been

  • Posted November 12, 2020
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