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Leadership & Reform

UK: Sir Simon Fraser steps down as Foreign Office chief

Sir Simon Fraser, permanent secretary of the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and head of its Diplomatic Service, will step down from his role and leave the British civil […]

Vicky Robertson appointed new environmental chief in New Zealand

Former New Zealand hockey player Vicky Robertson will be the new secretary for the environment and chief executive of the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), it has been announced today. […]

Analysis: ideas for radical reforms to the British government

For the first time since the Second World War all three major parties in Britain have current or recent experience of government: the present administration is made up of a […]

Former UK cabinet secretary calls for more open primaries

Former UK cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell has called for more members of parliament to be installed through primary elections to improve diversity in the British government. Speaking in an exclusive […]

Gus O’Donnell, Former UK Cabinet Secretary: Exclusive Interview

Retired head of the UK civil service Lord O’Donnell tells Global Government Forum how parliament should be reformed and why the UK’s upper house is too big He is dubbed the […]

Greek civil service to become ‘more effective’, says minister

Greece will today announce measures to streamline its civil service and crack down on tax evasion in a bid to secure a bailout extension. Finance ministry experts have spent the […]

Coleen Volk, Government of Canada: Exclusive Interview

Coleen Volk is deputy secretary to the cabinet, senior personnel, business transformation and renewal, of the Privy Council Office. She tells Winnie Agbonlahor about her broad portfolio On March 25, […]

Iain Rennie, State Services Commissioner, New Zealand: Exclusive Interview

Iain Rennie talks exclusively to Global Government Forum about innovation, collaboration and thinking outside the box. With the increased pace of global and environmental change, it has seldom been so […]

The Global Government Summit

The Global Government Summit has just successfully met in Singapore. The Summit was run by Global Government Forum, hosted by Mr Peter Ong, Head of the Civil Service in Singapore, […]

International India

India’s business landscape is constantly evolving. For years India was the star of the ‘offshore’ service industry and, while there are signs that star may be waning, there are other […]