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 capacity building, government reform and fiduciary risk. He is currently responsible for relationship management of the National School’s projects in the Gulf States, Kenya and the UK’s Overseas Territories. |
Caterina Alari BA and MSc
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 team in 2003 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. Since 2004 he has largely worked overseas – from 2004 to 2006 based in Warsaw as resident manager of a capacity-building project in the Polish Civil Service, and from 2007 to 2009 managing a long-term public administration reform project in Bosnia and Herzegovina, during which time he worked from offices in Banja Luka and Sarajevo. From early 2011 he will be based in Pristina, Kosovo, managing a large EU-funded support project building the capacity of the Kosovo local public administration. |
Adrian Rossiter BA MA DPhil
Programme Director and Consultant
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Adrian joined the International Team in 1996, having previously worked at the Civil Service College on European Union institutions and working methods. Since then he has been responsible for designing, managing and delivering many of our consultancy and training projects in New Member States, Candidate and Associated countries, both in support of specific EU business and, increasingly, on general public administration issues. Examples of this work include leading the editorial team for a draft National Strategy for European Integration; scoping and directing a PAR project to facilitate adoption of the EU acquis; consultancies on machinery of government and quality assurance in public administration; and work in support of the creation of ReSPA (Balkan Regional Public Administration School). |
Judy Hague MA MSc MSc DipPD
Principal International Consultant
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Judy has 13 years international experience as a project manager, consultant and facilitator. She returned to the National School in November 2008 following a three year career break as a director in the UK National Health Service. She has led and contributed to public sector reform and health projects in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She has worked extensively with Schools of Public Administration in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. In Kolkata, she was Director of the West Bengal Sexual Health Project for DfD. Judy's special interests are in institutional and organisational development, strategy, human resource management and development, leadership and management development, teamwork and the management of change. She also has extensive experience of public service delivery as a manager and commissioner of health services. |