All posts tagged "Featured"

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  The science of systems: an interview with Stephen Lucas, Canada’s health chief

  The pandemic has given scientists a key role in shaping policies; but scientific methods, says Health Canada deputy minister Stephen Lucas, are just as helpful in managing systems. The former

  • Posted September 22, 2020
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  Grown-up government: an interview with Iain Rennie, New Zealand’s former state services commissioner

  Over four years working as a consultant to governments around the world, former New Zealand civil service chief Iain Rennie has witnessed the global slide towards populism. But in his

  • Posted September 18, 2020
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  Crisis response: an interview with Sir Suma Chakrabarti

  Suma Chakrabarti, the former UK permanent secretary and EBRD chief, sees opportunities as well as risks amidst the COVID crisis; but western governments, he warns, are fumbling their response. Matt

  • Posted August 27, 2020
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  Doing good with data: an interview with the Development Bank of Latin America’s Carlos Santiso

  Dr Carlos Santiso is no stranger to crisis response, having spent 25 years promoting democracy, strengthening governance and fighting corruption in emerging economies and fragile states. The scale of the

  • Posted July 10, 2020
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  The restorative power of tech: an interview with Spain’s digital agency chief, David Cierco

  For years David Cierco, head of the Spanish Red.es digital unit, made steady progress on improving the country’s public services and supporting its businesses. Then came coronavirus, and an emerging

  • Posted June 3, 2020
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  The wisdom of crowds: an interview with Taiwan’s unorthodox digital minister

  In an increasingly fractious world, governments must connect directly with citizens in order to retain public trust. Audrey Tang’s radical approach to driving innovation through consensus and collaborative governance is

  • Posted December 18, 2019
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  Keeping pace with change: an interview with former Australian civil service chief Martin Parkinson

  In a world of fake news, says Martin Parkinson – the recently-retired secretary of Australia’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet – public servants must build a meritocratic, risk-taking

  • Posted October 30, 2019
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  Getting Brexit done: an interview with UK digital chief Alison Pritchard

  The UK prime minister may want to ‘get Brexit done’, but his Conservative Party has spent 40 months arguing over what that means; meanwhile, civil servants have had to build

  • Posted October 16, 2019
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  Michael Wernick on turbulent times for Canada – and its Clerk

  Michael Wernick, Canada’s outgoing Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, tells Matt Ross how the civil service is responding to an ever faster, more fractious world;

  • Posted September 16, 2019
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  Saving government: Ian Ackerley, chief executive of National Savings & Investments

  During the financial crisis, the UK government stepped in to nationalise some of the country’s biggest banks; coming onto the public sector’s books, they joined a retail savings bank set

  • Posted September 11, 2019
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