Speakers Bios & Abstracts

Platzhalter Speakers
John Elvidge
UK

Chairman, Edinburgh Airport;
Former Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government

Biography

Sir John Elvidge was Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Government from 2003 - 10.He is an Associate of the Institute for Government, a Carnegie Fellow for the Carnegie UK Trust, a contributing lecturer to Oxford University‘s Programmes for Leadership and Public Policy and an Adjunct Professor of the External Relations Centre of Shanghai Jaio Tong University.
He is also Chairman of Edinburgh Airport Limited and holds a number of other non-executive roles in the social enterprise, academic and charitable sectors.

Abstract

'Scotland since 2007 - one approach to the challenge of public sector agility'

'An account of the reasons for, methodology and consequences to date of the radical package of measures introduced across the public sector in Scotland from 2007 and a discussion of the relationship of those measures to wider thinking about public sector agility.'