Camilla has joined CfGS on a fixed term secondment from Devon County Council, where she is the Head of Scrutiny, leading a small team to support Councillors in positive challenge. ...
Manisha Patel is a consultant and coach. Manisha applies her unique interdisciplinary skillset to her work supporting organisations and individuals with systemic change. Manisha adopts a ‘floor to board’ approach ...
Andy is Chief Executive of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny. Under Andy’s leadership, CfGS is the foremost national organisation in the field of developing, promoting and supporting excellence in ...
Megan is one of our research and project officers at the Centre of Governance and Scrutiny. After completing her post-graduate degree in Politics at the University of Leeds, Megan began ...
After deciding to change her career which was in the banking and finance sector, Annette graduated in 2012 from the University of Central Lancashire with a First-Class Honours degree in ...
Graeme has worked in the events sector for over 20 years, organising international conferences and trade shows around the globe. He has held senior roles with responsibility for the planning, ...
Juliet is a Business Strategy and Operations professional with a track record of driving successful strategic programs across multiple geographies. She leverages on her skills in creative problem solving, focusing ...
Radhika has been a management consultant within financial services, currently works at Mastercard and is an expert in the payments sector. Over the last decade, Radhika has held several leadership ...
Sunita is an experienced coach and facilitator with over 30 years experience in local government, the private sector and a variety of other settings. She has been a long-standing associate ...
Tony Jackson is an accredited Member peer and has undertaken many Corporate Peer Challenges and facilitated workshop modules as part of the LGA’s sector led improvement offer. Tony served as ...
Dave McKenna is an independent consultant and researcher who helps councils and other public bodies with training, research and facilitation. An associate with the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny since ...
Lisa Smart is an elected member of Stockport Council where she chairs both the Corporate, Resource Management & Governance Scrutiny Committee and the Scrutiny Coordination Committee. Previously, she chaired the ...
Paul Cutler is a facilitator and consultant with over 30 years of experience providing support and advice to local government, the NHS and the community & voluntary sector. He specialises ...
Andrew Burns is an Associate Director of CIPFA, previously he was President of the organisation in 2017/18. He was also a former Chairman of the Consultative Committee of ...
Ed is our Deputy Chief Executive, leading on our research programme as well as delivering reviews of governance and scrutiny for our public and private sector clients, with a particular ...
Caraline is an experienced lawyer in public sector law and practice and spent the first half of her career in house at various local authorities before going into private practice. ...
Dr Jonathan Carr-West has been Chief Executive of the Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) since February 2013 where he leads on all aspects of the think tank’s policy, membership and ...
Helen Bailey is the Chief Executive of the London Borough of Sutton. She has held Chief Executive roles in the London Borough of Islington and in North Somerset. She ...
Dr Catherine Howe is Vice-Chair of the Centre for Governance and Scrutiny and is an expert in digital innovation, focusing on the area of digital democracy and social change. She ...