Distinguished Speakers Programme - Sir Michael Barber
- Date: 25 November
- Time: 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:00
- Venue: Exhibition Hall, UCT Graduate School of Business, Breakwater Campus, Portswood Road, Green Point
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GSB Connect
in association with
presents
The Distinguished Speakers Programme
with
Sir Michael Barber, British educationist and Chief Education Advisor to Pearson
and the Managing Partner of Delivery Associates
and the Managing Partner of Delivery Associates
Join in the conversation with Sir Michael Barber as he discusses “How to Run A Government”
SPEAKER
Sir Michael Barber is a world-leading authority on the effectiveness of government. He is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Delivery Associates and Chief Education Advisor at Pearson.
In March 2015 his latest book "How to Run a Government so that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don’t go Crazy"was published by Penguin to wide acclaim. The Economist says the book describes how to turn the “schemes and dreams of ministers into reality with as few disasters as possible”.
In 2001, he founded the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in No10, Downing Street, which he led until 2005. In this role he was responsible for ensuring delivery of the government's domestic policy priorities across health, education, crime reduction, criminal justice, transport and immigration. The sustained focus on delivery from the heart of government, and the processes the PMDU developed, were a significant innovation in government, of interest to numerous other countries and global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. Tony Blair described the PMDU as “utterly invaluable.”
From 2005 to 2011 Michael was a partner at McKinsey and Company where he played a leading role in creating a public sector practice and founded the global education practice. Building on his experience in the UK, he advised a number of city, regional and national governments – in Malaysia, Ontario, Los Angeles and Maryland, among others – on improving delivery of domestic policy. He has also advised on applying the delivery approach to a number of US education systems including New York City and Louisiana. In 2009 he founded, in Washington DC, the Education Delivery Institute, a not-for-profit organisation that works with more than a dozen US States to apply systematic delivery approaches to improving outcomes in schools and public higher education. He has worked on more than fifty countries including several in Africa.
In his role at Pearson he is responsible for putting in place a process to ensure that all products and services demonstrably deliver improved learner outcomes. He is also the chair of the Affordable Learning Fund, which aims to extend opportunities by investing in innovative, low-cost private education in the developing world.
Since 2009, on behalf of the British Government, he has visited Pakistan more than 40 times to oversee a radical reform of the education system and from 2014 to establish a delivery unit for the Chief Minister of Punjab which is transforming health and water provision as well as sanitation.
His past publications include "Instruction to Deliver" (2008), an account of his four years in No. 10 Downing Street, described by the Financial Times as “one of the best books about British Government for many years”. "Deliverology 101", and "Deliverology in Practice", textbooks for those in government who want to increase their effectiveness.
He is a visiting professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard School of Public Health and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Exeter and the University of Wales. In 2005, he was knighted for his services to improving government.
In March 2015 his latest book "How to Run a Government so that Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don’t go Crazy"was published by Penguin to wide acclaim. The Economist says the book describes how to turn the “schemes and dreams of ministers into reality with as few disasters as possible”.
In 2001, he founded the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in No10, Downing Street, which he led until 2005. In this role he was responsible for ensuring delivery of the government's domestic policy priorities across health, education, crime reduction, criminal justice, transport and immigration. The sustained focus on delivery from the heart of government, and the processes the PMDU developed, were a significant innovation in government, of interest to numerous other countries and global institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. Tony Blair described the PMDU as “utterly invaluable.”
From 2005 to 2011 Michael was a partner at McKinsey and Company where he played a leading role in creating a public sector practice and founded the global education practice. Building on his experience in the UK, he advised a number of city, regional and national governments – in Malaysia, Ontario, Los Angeles and Maryland, among others – on improving delivery of domestic policy. He has also advised on applying the delivery approach to a number of US education systems including New York City and Louisiana. In 2009 he founded, in Washington DC, the Education Delivery Institute, a not-for-profit organisation that works with more than a dozen US States to apply systematic delivery approaches to improving outcomes in schools and public higher education. He has worked on more than fifty countries including several in Africa.
In his role at Pearson he is responsible for putting in place a process to ensure that all products and services demonstrably deliver improved learner outcomes. He is also the chair of the Affordable Learning Fund, which aims to extend opportunities by investing in innovative, low-cost private education in the developing world.
Since 2009, on behalf of the British Government, he has visited Pakistan more than 40 times to oversee a radical reform of the education system and from 2014 to establish a delivery unit for the Chief Minister of Punjab which is transforming health and water provision as well as sanitation.
His past publications include "Instruction to Deliver" (2008), an account of his four years in No. 10 Downing Street, described by the Financial Times as “one of the best books about British Government for many years”. "Deliverology 101", and "Deliverology in Practice", textbooks for those in government who want to increase their effectiveness.
He is a visiting professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, a distinguished visiting scholar at Harvard School of Public Health and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Exeter and the University of Wales. In 2005, he was knighted for his services to improving government.
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