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Join Dean Ngaire Woods and Lord Gus O’Donnell for the 2024 launch of the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration, the comprehensive index of international indicators to assess the effectiveness of national public administrations and civil services across the globe.
An effective public administration plays a vital role in determining a country’s progress and prosperity. The Blavatnik Index’s core objective is to help public administration leaders – and those working with them or holding them to account – determine how they are performing and identify ways to improve their performance. The Index looks at key features of public administration across strategy and leadership; public policy; national delivery and underpinning people and processes.
This year’s launch event will feature discussions with senior public administration leaders and academics on the importance of effective public administration, and how we can develop a global learning community to improve public administrations, enabling a more data-informed approach to public administration reform.
Find out more at index.bsg.ox.ac.uk
*Chapters*
0:00 Dean Ngaire Wood's introductory remarks
7:25 Panel 1: "Why effective public administration is important" with Lord Gus O'Donnell (Former Cabinet Secretary), Glyn Davis (Secretary to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia), Aaron Maniam (BSG faculty - Fellow of Practice and Director, Digital Transformation Programme) and Lucy Smith (Former Director General for Strategy at the DEFRA and Heywood Fellow)
43:03 Results presentation by Kathy Hall and Matt Kerlogue
1:08:03 Remarks from Leo Yip, Head of the Civil Service of Singapore
1:11:54 Questions on the results and response from Lord Gus O'Donnell
1:15:46 Panel 2: "From Index to Impact: how we can develop a global learning community to improve public administrations?" with Sapana Agrawal (Director Civil Service Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office), Clare Leaver (BSG faculty - Professor of Economics and Public Policy), Zahid Hasnain (Lead Governance Specialist, World Bank) and Santiago González (Senior Economist, Governance Indicators and Performance Division, OECD)
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
Join Dean Ngaire Woods and Lord Gus O’Donnell for the 2024 launch of the Blavatnik Index of Public Administration, the comprehensive index of international indicators to assess the effectiveness of national public administrations and civil services across the globe.
An effective public administration plays a vital role in determining a country’s progress and prosperity. The Blavatnik Index’s core objective is to help public administration leaders – and those working with them or holding them to account – determine how they are performing and identify ways to improve their performance. The Index looks at key features of public administration across strategy and leadership; public policy; national delivery and underpinning people and processes.
This year’s launch event will feature discussions with senior public administration leaders and academics on the importance of effective public administration, and how we can develop a global learning community to improve public administrations, enabling a more data-informed approach to public administration reform.
Find out more at index.bsg.ox.ac.uk
*Chapters*
0:00 Dean Ngaire Wood's introductory remarks
7:25 Panel 1: "Why effective public administration is important" with Lord Gus O'Donnell (Former Cabinet Secretary), Glyn Davis (Secretary to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australia), Aaron Maniam (BSG faculty - Fellow of Practice and Director, Digital Transformation Programme) and Lucy Smith (Former Director General for Strategy at the DEFRA and Heywood Fellow)
43:03 Results presentation by Kathy Hall and Matt Kerlogue
1:08:03 Remarks from Leo Yip, Head of the Civil Service of Singapore
1:11:54 Questions on the results and response from Lord Gus O'Donnell
1:15:46 Panel 2: "From Index to Impact: how we can develop a global learning community to improve public administrations?" with Sapana Agrawal (Director Civil Service Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office), Clare Leaver (BSG faculty - Professor of Economics and Public Policy), Zahid Hasnain (Lead Governance Specialist, World Bank) and Santiago González (Senior Economist, Governance Indicators and Performance Division, OECD)
Blavatnik School of Government,
University of Oxford
bsg.ox.ac.uk
