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Public Service Career & Professions

Indian PM gives former officials ministerial jobs as focus on delivery grows

Former civil servants and diplomats are increasingly being given Cabinet ranking or ministerial jobs in Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s second term – bringing more delivery experience into the top […]

Former Canadian attorney general releases tape of call with Cabinet secretary

Canada’s former attorney general and justice minister, Jody Wilson-Raybould, has released an audio recording to support her claim that she came under pressure from prime minister Justin Trudeau and the […]

Unions slam UK’s 1980s civil service blacklist

Trade unionists are to write to the UK Cabinet Office to ask whether it continues to keep a blacklist of civil servants, following revelations about a covert 1980s exercise which […]

Hunt for New Zealand’s first CTO is widened

The search for New Zealand’s first chief technology officer is to continue, after the government decided not to make an appointment from among the 60 applicants. An appointment for the […]

Former civil service head to chair new Enterprise Singapore agency

The former head of Singapore’s civil service, Peter Ong Boon Kwee, has been appointed as chairman-designate of a new public agency charged with helping the city-state’s businesses succeed in global […]

Hong Kong to recruit over 5,000 civil servants

Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to increase the number of civil servants in the territory by three per cent during the next financial year. More […]

UK civil service urged to step up professionalism reforms

A report has called for a “greater sense of urgency” around ongoing reforms to the UK civil service to ensure it has a “fighting chance” of handling the growing pressures […]

Women Leaders Index Gender Equality Case Study: Italy

Every country has a different story to tell on women leaders in the civil service. Interviewing experts on the findings of our Women Leaders Index – which tracks the proportion […]

Women Leaders Index Gender Equality Case Study: Mexico

Every country has a different story to tell on women leaders in the civil service. Interviewing experts on the findings of our Women Leaders Index – which tracks the proportion […]

Women Leaders Index Gender Equality Case Study: Turkey

Every country has a different story to tell on women leaders in the civil service. Interviewing experts on the findings of our Women Leaders Index – which tracks the proportion […]