All posts tagged "Leading Questions"
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2024 wrapped: revisit Global Government Forum’s top podcasts
From remembering the heyday of the UK Digital Academy to looking ahead at the hurdles public service leaders face in 2025, here’s our pick of the best podcasts from this
- Posted December 30, 2024
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Podcast: How the US federal government is getting ready for the new president
The US presidential election, won by Donald Trump, is the most consequential election of this ‘year of democracy’. In this special podcast, Global Government Forum webinar chair Siobhan Benita discusses
- Posted November 26, 2024
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US election podcast: Experts give their views on the state of the race so far
In this special edition of Global Government Forum’s Leading Questions podcast, which is based on a webinar held in September, we look at the key issues in the upcoming United
- Posted October 1, 2024
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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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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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‘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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‘Empowering people with a sense of possibility’: GGF’s Leading Questions podcast with New Zealand’s former public service chief Iain Rennie
Global Government Forum’s latest Leading Questions podcast features Iain Rennie, whose decades-long public service career culminated in eight years as New Zealand’s state services commissioner. In this episode, Iain tells
- Posted June 1, 2023
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‘Serve your country – you will never regret it’: listen to GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with the White House’s Noreen Hecmanczuk
In the first of our Leading Questions podcasts to feature an American federal government leader, Noreen Hecmanczuk reflects on a long and diverse career in public service – a career
- Posted May 4, 2023
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‘The pandemic brought the opportunity to change and a willingness to experiment’: GGF’s latest Leading Questions podcast with the European Commission’s Gertrud Ingestad
Global Government Forum’s latest episode has been published, featuring Gertrud Ingestad who has held a variety of roles in her 27-year career at the European Commission, most recently as director
- Posted January 25, 2023