All posts tagged "leadership"

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  Letter from Ottawa: a new year begins quietly, but much lies ahead

  2024 has begun relatively quietly in Canada but the ripples of the past couple of years are still being felt. It will be a year for public servants to put

  • Posted January 10, 2024
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  ‘Women from diverse communities and experiences bring unique insights to the table’: Five minutes with Sonia Karim, director of Sierra Leone’s Cabinet Affairs Department

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from women civil and public servants as part of our Global Government Women’s Network coverage. In this

  • Posted December 18, 2023
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  Public servants have not been able to build defences for the next crisis, warns former Bank of England chief economist

  Leading economist and public policy expert Andy Haldane has warned that public servants have not had enough “relative tranquillity” to recover from more than a decade of crisis. In an

  • Posted October 19, 2023
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  AccelerateGOV 2023 as it happened

  AccelerateGOV 2023 brings together public service leaders from around the world to explore how public servants in all relevant disciplines and roles can best promote digitalization and transformation.

  • Posted October 3, 2023
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  Leading through ambiguity and getting inspiration from America and Australia: Five minutes with Public Service Data Live speaker Fiona James of the ONS

  In this sister series to our ‘Five minutes with’ interviews, we share insights from the civil and public service leaders who will speak at Public Service Data Live in London on 14

  • Posted September 10, 2023
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  From digital ID to the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: how to deal with crises in government

  The most senior civil servant in Estonia has shared his reflections on how governments can deal with crises in an exclusive interview with Global Government Forum. In Global Government Forum’s

  • Posted September 7, 2023
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  “I always knew that my anchor was health”: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with former UK health department chief, Dame Una O’Brien

  In this episode of Leading Questions, Una O’Brien, who was permanent secretary of the UK Department of Health between 2010 and 2016, joins podcast host Siobhan Benita for a chat

  • Posted August 10, 2023
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  Integrity under threat: civil service ethics in the era of populism

  Populism left an indelible mark on the 2010s, and its hold in democracies remains strong. During a Global Government Forum webinar, experts discussed how civil servants can maintain legitimacy at

  • Posted July 27, 2023
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  Biden picks first woman to lead the US Navy

  President Joe Biden has nominated admiral Lisa Franchetti to lead the US Navy. If confirmed, she would be the first woman service chief in the Pentagon and the first female

  • Posted July 25, 2023
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  ‘Find your references, your mirrors and your mentors’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with the Spanish government’s deputy director of learning, Israel Pastor Sainz-Pardo

  In this episode of Leading Questions, podcast host Siobhan Benita speaks know-how and knock-backs with the deputy director of learning at Spain’s National Institute of Public Administration. Israel Pastor has

  • Posted June 29, 2023
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