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KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Andrew Simon Campbell
Director
of Local Strategic Partnerships and
Performance in the Department for
Communities and Local Government
Andrew is Director of Local Strategic Partnerships
and Performance in the Department for Communities and Local Government.
His responsibilities include Local Strategic Partnerships, Local
Area Agreements and local government efficiency and performance
(including capacity building support and intervention and the
implementation of the new White Paper performance framework).
Andrew took up this post in October 2006. Before then, he was
Director of the Regional Co-ordination Unit, the corporate centre
for the Government Office network (2003-06); and Private Secretary
to the Secretaries of State for DTLR and for Transport (2001–03).
Andrew joined the civil service in 1983, having gained degrees
from St Andrews and London universities. He has worked for most
of his career in what is now DCLG or the Department for Transport,
apart from secondments to the Cabinet Office Economic and Domestic
Secretariat (1995-98) and the European Commission (1990-93). |
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Ros
Aird
Head of Hertfordshire Business Services
Ros is currently Head of Hertfordshire Business Services at Hertfordshire
County Council and is Chair of the Central Buying Consortium.
Her experience is primarily based in local government procurement
where she is responsible for the maintenance of best practice
and purchasing within Hertfordshire County Council. As head of
service she leads Hertfordshire's multimillion-pound purchasing
and supply unit and has responsibility for a wide range of contract
management services. In addition to her corporate procurement
and client functions Ros is responsible for a number of operational
units within Hertfordshire employing around 2000 people. Over
the past 11 years she has played a significant role in the development
of the CBC, a federation of authorities working together to obtain
the benefits of scale whilst still retaining local identity and
presence. |
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Dr
Elmer Bakker
PhD, MSc, BSc
Bath University
Elmer joined CRiSPS as a research officer in November 2004. After
his MSc, he conducted his PhD research at the University of Groningen,
which deals with the role of perception in managing supplier relations.
In CRiSPS, Elmer has been involved in an international workshop
in public procurement and is working on the collaborative research
programme with NHS PASA. He has worked on a project looking at
the strategic case for e-enablement in healthcare supply chains
and currently focuses on collaborative procurement and evidence-based
purchasing. |
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Darron
Cox
Director and Deputy Commercial Director,
DfES Centre for Procurement Performance
Darron is Director and Deputy Commercial Director of the CPP with
responsibility for schools and local authorities. He was previously
with the London Borough of Hackney as Assistant Director of Finance
(Procurement, Fleet and Resources). Prior to this, he was Head
of Resources and Strategy for Hertfordshire Business Services.
He also spent a number of years in the Ministry of Defence, the
Office for National Statistics and the catering industry. He is
a Chartered Management Accountant and completed an MBA from De
Montfort University in 2002. |
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David
Hewitt
PSL Consulting
David is an entrepreneurial practitioner with more than 30 years’
experience in procurement. He has led many consulting and training
assignments for a variety of highly regarded clients, provided
professional leadership to CIPS and developed unique consortium
buying techniques. He has also authored three major reports into
local government procurement and social care commissioning and
writes regularly for Supply Management and other journals. David
is the Managing Director of PSL Consulting Solutions Ltd, a company
dedicated to providing practical procurement consulting and project
management solutions to the purchasing and supply community. |
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Charles
Malkin
Staffordshire Connects
During his three years as communications manager for Staffordshire
Connects, Charles has been instrumental in securing two national
awards. He wrote the submission which resulted in the consortium
being named best public sector partnership in the UK by the Association
for Public Service Excellence, and assembled much of the evidence
which led to the government award of Beacon status in the category
of transforming service delivery through partnerships. In addition
to managing communications for Staffordshire Connects, Charles
has provided communications consultancy to the Improvement and
Development Agency’s esd-toolkit, Staffordshire Plus Improvement
Partnership, and the About Me Now e-Innovations project enabling
citizens to administer personal data consents online for the use
of local authority partners and private sector subscribers. |
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Mike
Rebeiro
Norton Rose
Mike is an intellectual property lawyer based in London. He heads
the communication, media and technology international business
group at Norton Rose specialising in IT projects. He has advised
on a large number of major IT outsourcing projects involving the
outsourcing of discrete computer departments, technology services,
processing facilities and customer call centres. He also advises
on all aspects of software licensing as well as IT system procurement
and development projects. Mike has also been extensively involved
in providing legal advice to a wide range of internet businesses
including e-commerce start-ups and more established providers
in both the B2B and B2C markets. |
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John
Seddon
Vanguard
John is an occupational psychologist and management thinker credited
with translating the Toyota Production System (TPS) for service
organisations. In service organisations change can be much faster
than in manufacturing, but managers firstly have to be prepared
to change the way they think. In his time John has been a leading
critic of management fads, in particular ISO 9000, which he describes
as being based on bad theory. Most of his criticisms of management
and their fads are based on his view that it is management thinking
that needs to change. He has been an ardent critic of the Government’s
approach to public sector reform, in particular the adverse consequences
of targets and specifications. These, he says, are components
of the ‘command and control’ philosophy which, he
argues, is a failing management paradigm. John proposes instead
managers learn to adopt a systems perspective. |
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Dr
Helen Walker
PhD, MSc, BSc
Senior Research Fellow, Bath University
Helen joined the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and
Supply (CRiSPS) in March 2000, working on the collaborative research
programme with NHS PASA and conducting a study of e-procurement
in the United Nations. Current research activities include investigating
sustainable procurement in the public and private sectors, including
barriers and enablers and how impacts are measured. Helen has
co-designed an innovative sustainable procurement training programme
for NHS practitioners and sat on the cross-government Sustainable
Procurement Task Force (Capacity Building Workstream). She is
also a Visiting Professor at Arizona State University, conducting
international comparative purchasing and supply research in the
health sector. |
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David
Wright
Director, NE Centre of Excellence
David has over 20 years’ experience as a local authority
Chief Officer and is currently Director of the NE Centre of Excellence
(NECE) which has been established with funding from the DCLG to
facilitate and support local authorities and other public sector
bodies to collaboratively develop their efficiency and procurement
programmes. The nine RCEs have identified sustainable procurement
as a priority in their National Programme, which NECE leads on
their behalf. |
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