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MULGAN AND BICHARD JOIN NATIONAL SCHOOL SUNNINGDALE INSTITUTE

Young Foundation chief Geoff Mulgan and University of the Arts Rector Sir Michael Bichard KCB are amongst a group of thought leaders from the UK and abroad to join the National School of Government’s Sunningdale Institute as Fellows, the School announced last week.
 
The new intake – the first since the inception of the Institute in 2005 – sees 14 new Fellows join the Institute. Fresh expertise in Human Resources comes with the recruitment of David Fairhurst (McDonalds, Northern Europe) and Tony McCarthy (BA), with Professor Gerry Johnson (Lancaster University Management School) adding to Institute capacity on Strategy. Trust and good governance receives additional emphasis from the arrival of Dr Kevin Money (Henley Management College) and Professor Robin Wensley (Warwick University Business School).
 
As well as Michael Bichard, the Institute’s pool of wider public service leadership experience now includes Alice Brown (Public Services Ombudsman, Scotland), Allan Fels (Chief Executive, Australia and New Zealand School of Government), Professor Christopher Hood (University of Oxford) and former permanent secretary Sir Ian Magee CB. The Government’s focus on the importance of innovation and the third sector in public service delivery sees the arrival of Lord Victor Adebowale (Turning Point) and Kristina Murrin (?What if!) in addition to Geoff Mulgan. Finally, the world of social science is represented by Professor Teresa Rees (Cardiff University).
 
Cabinet Secretary and Sunningdale Institute President Sir Gus O’Donnell commented: “Along with current members, the new tranche of Fellows represents an intellectually formidable source of thought leadership on management, organisational health and governance, and brings to the Civil Service the ‘practical wisdom’ that is the hallmark of the Sunningdale Institute. Being positioned on the threshold between government and the world outside, the Sunningdale Institute is able to work on projects where we need both sensitive handling and robust, evidence-based challenge. "
 
Attached to the National School and chaired by Professor Cary Cooper, the Sunningdale Institute is dedicated to helping ministers and public service leaders with organisational development and delivery issues, and works with organisations in a variety of ways – research and evaluation, building capacity through knowledge exchange in areas such as public leadership and governance, consulting on organisation and system design, connecting strategy and operations, and fostering innovation.
 
In recent months the Sunningdale Institute has published reports on Capability Reviews (Take-off or Tail-off? An evaluation of the Capability Reviews programme) and business models (Effective Business Models: What Do They mean for Whitehall?) - the latter based on an Institute research project initiated in response to Review findings. The Institute is currently assisting the Cabinet Office with work on leadership, working on the development of models and processes for assessing capability to achieve cross-cutting Public Service Agreements (PSAs) and working with the Home Office on a values and behaviour change programme.
 
Notes for editors
 
As the Government’s centre of excellence for learning and development, the National School of Government became a government department in January 2007. Under the leadership of Robin Ryde, it strives to ensure the highest professional and academic standards in public service organisational and people development.  Visit www.nationalschool.gov.uk for more information.
The Sunningdale Institute is directed by the National School of Government’s Professor Sue Richards. A full list of Fellows is attached at the annex. For more details, including Fellows’ biographies, visit www.nationalschool.gov.uk/sunningdaleinstitute.
 
 
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Annex to NSG News Release 29/1/08
 
LIST OF SUNNINGDALE INSTITUTE FELLOWS
 
  1. Lord Victor Adebowale CBE - Chief Executive, Turning Point
  2. Professor Niclas Adler - Dean and Managing Director, Jonkoping International Business School
  3. Professor Patrick Barwise – Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing, London Business School
  4. Professor John Benington - Professor of Public Policy and Management, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick University
  5. Professor John Bessant- Professor in Innovation and Technology Management, Imperial College
  6. Sir Michael Bichard - Rector, University of the Arts
  7. Professor Alice Brown - Public Services Ombudsman, Scotland
  8. Sir Bill Callaghan - Former Chair of Health and Safety Commission
  9. Professor Cary Cooper CBE (Chair) - Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor in Organisational Psychology and Health, Lancaster University Management School
  10. Professor Colin Crouch FBA - Professor of Governance and Public Management, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick University
  11. Professor Rick Delbridge - Professor in Organisational Analysis, Cardiff Business School
  12. David Fairhurst - McDonalds Senior Vice President, Chief People Office, Northern Europe
  13. Professor Allan Fels - Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government
  14. Baroness Rennie Fritchie DBE – Consultant, Mainstream Development and Former Commissioner for Public Appointments
  15. Professor Mike Gregory CBE - Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University
  16. Professor Keith Grint - Professor of Defence Leadership and Deputy Principal (Management and Leadership) Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University
  17. Professor Jean Hartley - Professor of Organisational Analysis, Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick Business School, Warwick University
  18. Professor Christopher Hood - Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College Oxford
  19. Will Hutton - Chief Executive, The Work Foundation
  20. Professor Susan E Jackson - Professor of Human Resource Management, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
  21. Professor Kim Turnbull James - Professor of Executive Learning, Cranfield School of Management
  22. Professor Gerry Johnson - The Sir Roland Smith Professor of Strategic Management and Director of the Centre for Strategic Management at Lancaster University Management School
  23. Dr Elaine Kamarck - Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  24. Professor Binna Kandola OBE - Senior Partner, Pearn Kandola
  25. Tony McCarthy – Director – People, British Airways
  26. David MacLeod - Non Executive Director of the Department for International Development and Non Executive Director of Ofsted, Senior Associate at Towers Perrin and Visiting Professor of the Cass Business School
  27. Sir Ian Magee – Senior Advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton and Director, St Albans Consulting Group
  28. Dr Kevin Money - Associate Professor, Director of the School of Reputation and Relationships, Henley Management College
  29. Professor Mark H Moore - Hauser Professor and Director of the Hauser Center for Non-profit Organizations, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  30. Geoff Mulgan - Director, The Young Foundation
  31. Kristina Murrin - Founding Director, ?What If!
  32. Professor Andy Neely – Director of Research, Cranfield School of Management and Deputy Director, Advanced Institute of Management Research
  33. Sir David Omand GCB - Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London
  34. Professor Jone L Pearce - Professor of Organization and Strategy, The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California
  35. Baroness Usha Prashar CBE - Chair of the Judicial Appointments Commission
  36. Professor Teresa Rees - Pro Vice Chancellor, Cardiff University and Professor in the School of Social Sciences
  37. Professor Denise Rousseau - HJ Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Carnegie Mellon University
  38. Professor Gillian Stamp - Director of the Brunel Institute of Organisation and Social Studies
  39. Professor Ken Starkey - Professor of Management and Organisational Learning, Nottingham University Business School, Warwick University
  40. Professor Howard Thomas - Dean and Professor of Management, Warwick Business School
  41. Professor David Tranfield - Professor of Management, Director of Research and Faculty Development and Deputy Director, Cranfield School of Management
  42. Professor Robin Wensley - Professor of Policy and Marketing, Warwick Business School, Warwick University and Director, Advanced Institute of Management Research
  43. Professor Stephen Woolgar - Professor of Marketing, University of Oxford
 

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