Fourth Edition
In Conversation With… Helen MacNamara
In this edited summary of an extensive discussion in Spring 2025, Peter McDonald talks to one of Whitehall’s most senior civil servants of the last 15 years about the lessons she took from being at the centre of government, and having a ringside seat during Brexit and the Covid pandemic
The Art of Horizontal Government
True digital transformation requires reimagining the citizen experience from scratch, argues Victor Dominello, CEO of the Future Government Institute and a former New South Wales Minister for Customer Service.
Science and Scientists to the fore….
Penny Endersby talks to Tim Dickson about her journey from specialist researcher to running the Met Office
The days when specialists, notably economists, operated mostly in Whitehall silos and took a backseat to ‘generalists’ were recalled recently in Heywood Quarterly by Lord Terry Burns, former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury. Something similar could also have been said at the time about scientists in government…
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