Meet the Team
Bob Stephenson
Head of International Development and Consultancy
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Bob has been with the National School since 1998, and recently returned to lead our international work for a second time, after directing the National School's 'Making It Happen' transformational change programme. A senior civil servant with over 30 years’ experience, including 18 years in international development, he has worked at the heart of reform and transition in UK and overseas, and has also spent time in the private sector as company director and Head of the Public Governance consultancy practice. He has led teams working around the world, and has personally led and contributed to public administration and Civil Service reform programmes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans, supported a range of donors including Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Cabinet Office, European Union, United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank. He also spent three years as UK representative on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Public Governance Committee and led on international liaison for the Cabinet Office. |
Chris Cooper BA CPFA
Principal International Consultant
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Chris came to us from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in 1994, initially as a lecturer in public finance and accountability; more recently, he has helped establish a new financial strategy for the National School. In the intervening years, his roles have seen him running the Fast Stream Government Finance programme; advising Agency Chief Executives and Permanent Secretaries on their responsibilities as Accounting Officers; growing, managing and delivering the National School's portfolio of international public service reform projects in eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Caribbean; and advising public bodies worldwide on subjects that include government reform and fiduciary risk. His current role entails developing the National School's link with other public service academies and a range of partners in the academic and private sectors, both domestically and internationally. |
David Lawton MSc, MBA Chartered FCIPD MCMI
Account Manager and Organisation Development Consultant
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David has extensive experience of organisational development both in the UK and internationally. He came to us in 1998 as a career civil servant, contributing since that time as a senior lecturer and principal international consultant. In his current role as Account Manager and Organisation Development Consultant, David works with many of the National School's clients across the whole of the UK and internationally on organisation-wide change programmes and public administration reforms. |
Caterina Alari
Principal International Consultant
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Caterina has spent the last twenty years working in the field of development program design and management. She has held a number of senior management positions and has completed consultancy assignments for international organisations in Africa and in Asia. For the last ten years she has specialised in the area of capacity building, change management and institutional development. In particular she has been supporting the process and implementation of accountability programmes, decentralization and performance management through building the capacity of central and local government and civil society organisations.
Her work has mainly focused on advising government and non-governmental organisations on organisational development, institutional analysis and change initiatives. Caterina has acquired specialist knowledge in design and review of sector wide approaches and public sector reform. She is experienced in facilitation, negotiation, presentation and gender mainstreaming. |
Sue Treharne PGDip MA
Principal International Consultant
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Sue has worked in HR management for the past 20 years. She has undertaken various consultancy projects in both the public and private sectors covering business and HR strategy, operational issues and management development at all levels. Sue has particular responsibility for the National School's MA in Human Resource Strategy and Change programme, delivered in partnership with Kingston Business School, Kingston University. She is also a trained counsellor and programme director for the Employee and Organisation Support programme. Sue's expertise is in demand internationally. She has designed and delivered training in Bermuda, Serbia and Poland and is currently leading support to the development of modern HR practice in Bosnia and Herzegovina. |
Andrew McBride BSc
Principal International Consultant
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Andrew joined the International Consultancy in 2003. He came to us from a broad human resources background that included experience of the development and delivery of recruitment solutions across all areas of the UK Civil Service. From 2004 to 2006, he worked in Warsaw as resident manager of a capacity-building project in the Polish Civil Service. Since May 2007, he has held a similar role with a long-term public administration reform project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, working from offices in Banja Luka and Sarajevo. |
Adrian Rossiter BA MA DPhil
Programme Director and Consultant
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Adrian joined us in 1988, having read Classics and Modern History at Cambridge and completed a doctorate in French Politics while he was Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Adrian has extensive experience of training civil servants in both the UK and the new EU member states on most key aspects of EU work. Currently, he is particularly interested in the new institutional structures, the development of the Structural Funds, and comparative government issues. |
Judy Hague MA MSc MSc DipPD
Principal International Consultant
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Judy returned to the National School in November 2008 following a three year career break as a director in the UK National Health Service. Judy has 12 years international experience and has contributed to public sector reform and health projects in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Africa and the Middle East including project management, institutional appraisal, project design, needs analysis, design, development and implementation of learning and development programmes and human resource development strategies. She has worked extensively with Schools of Public Administration in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Judy's special interests are in institutional and organisational development, strategy, human resource management and development, management and leadership development, organisational performance management, teamwork and the management of change. She also has extensive experience of public service delivery as both a manager and commissioner of health services. |
John Peake
Principal International Consultant
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John's international career started in 1995 when he joined us as a senior consultant in the International Consultancy. He spent three years as a technical Adviser in the Office of the Prime Minister, Republic of Namibia and since returning to the UK has worked within Public Service Reform in more than 20 countries. The combination of UK and international experience in government reform enabled him to support partner countries across Africa, Asia and in Europe as a reform adviser. John has specialist experience in strategic management and planning, in organisation and structures and in design and implementation of management systems; he also has experience in developing human resource management and development policies within the framework of the reform agenda and for designing and implementing human resource management and development systems. |