All posts tagged "Suma Chakrabarti"

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  Institutional racism: a global government problem?

  In recent years and decades, a number of civil services have been accused of institutional racism. Some countries have since taken steps to ensure the government workforce is ethnically diverse

  • Posted November 28, 2021
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  A new breed of public servants: skills and staffing after the pandemic

  Civil servants have broken new ground during the COVID-19 pandemic – using hackathons, scientific advisory groups and private sector volunteers to shape policy and deliver services, for example. But at

  • Posted May 10, 2021
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  The race to protect: how COVID-19 supercharged civil service delivery

  When the pandemic arrived, civil services acted rapidly to protect citizens. At the Global Government Summit, national leaders discussed some of the lessons they’d learned – and looked ahead to

  • Posted April 28, 2021
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  Former UK chancellor suggests appointing business leaders to civil service jobs

  Figures from business could be brought into top civil service management roles, former UK chancellor George Osborne has told an influential UK civil service reform panel. Osborne was speaking at

  • Posted November 5, 2020
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  With crisis comes opportunity: economic sustainability and the argument for going green

  Governments around the world have had no choice but to roll out vast stimulus packages in a bid to keep economies afloat during the coronavirus crisis. At a recent GGF

  • Posted September 27, 2020
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  Former UK diplomatic chief warns of declining influence overseas

  The UK’s global influence is in decline, the former head of the country’s foreign office has argued – with Brexit and an over-controlling Number 10 at the heart of the

  • Posted September 14, 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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  EBRD chief: governments must ‘push much harder’ on sustainability

  Inaction is not an option on environmental sustainability, EBRD president Sir Suma Chakrabarti told the Global Government Leaders’ Forum. Mia Hunt hears top officials from four countries debate how governments

  • Posted June 8, 2020
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  Pointing the way forward on civil service reform

  Delivering reforms means “changing the engine as the plane is in flight”, Singapore’s civil service head Leo Yip told colleagues from 17 countries at the 2020 Global Government Summit. Matt

  • Posted May 25, 2020
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  Beyond the gifted amateur: building a professional workforce

  Civil services need both the specialist professional expertise to deliver for ministers, and the authority to advise ministers on what is deliverable. At the Global Government Summit, top officials from

  • Posted May 15, 2020
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