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The Centre's Fellowship programme reaches new heights of seniority next term with the launch of the new Policy Leaders Fellowship, which will extend the network to Directors General in Whitehall and their peers in other administrations and in industry.
Discussions with the Head of the UK Home Civil Service and other Permanent Secretaries, and at the highest levels of the European Commission in Brussels and in industry, have helped us to shape an offering appropriate to this new group and the constraints and challenges with which they work. Through termly roundtable workshops, supported by one-on-one meetings with leading researchers, the new Fellows will progress the move towards open policy making by opening up new ways of thinking and fresh perspectives; exercising “open minds” at the top of the policy making process; exploring new models for implementation; and creating engagement between policy, expertise and delivery.
The first cadre of Fellows includes six Directors General from Whitehall (covering business, work and pensions, energy and climate change, the environment, transport and home affairs), the heads of two Directorates General in Brussels (DG-Connect and the JRC), senior figures from industry and the CEO of the UK's Technology Strategy Board. The group will meet for the first time in June to discuss open policy making, evidence and external expertise; a second meeting will be convened in Michaelmas Term on the theme innovation, jobs and growth.
CSaP's Executive Director, Rob Doubleday, commented: "We're delighted to see how the benefits of our investment in the Fellowship model are being recognised at the highest levels of policy making, and we are looking forward to a series of insightful exchanges on the key public policy challenges."
Policy Leaders are elected to the Fellowship for a two-year period, and the group is expected to grow to around 25 members. We are currently investigating sustainable funding options for this programme. Naming opportunities will be considered in recognition of major donor support.
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