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Office for Public Management
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Directors
Peter Dixon
OPM Chairman
Peter chairs our board of directors, and brings particular experience from housing, health and local government.
Hilary Thompson
Chief Executive
Hilary's main focus is on improvement in services, including strategy, commissioning and organisational development.
Lesley Campbell
Director
Lesley leads our people and organisational development division.
John Kellas
Director
John is our finance director, who also leads our human resources and IT.
Ewan King
Director
Ewan heads our business development division and leads OPM's work on social cohesion and preventing extremism.
Kai Rudat
Director
Kai leads our work on evaluation, research and engagement.
Principals
Helen Brown
Leadership and Management Development
Helen brings her interest in diversity and equality to her management, organisational and personal development work.
Phil Copestake
Communications and Strategy
Phil leads our communications team and works with clients in local government.
Sue Goss
Local Government
Sue specialises in leadership, governance and strategy development at all levels of government.
David Love
Leadership Development
David works on leadership development projects with a range of public services.
Clive Miller
Health and Social Care
Clive leads our work on children’s and adults’ services, specialising in innovative practice.
Deborah Rozansky
Health and Social Care
An expert in health policy and public health, Deborah leads OPM’s health sector work.
Chih Hoong Sin
Evaluation
An experienced mixed-methods researcher with a background in equalities and diversity, Chih Hoong leads our evaluation work.
Judith Smyth
Commissioning and Governance
Judith's special areas of expertise are in commissioning, children's services and governance.
Paul Tarplett
Organisational Change
Paul works with organisations on strategy, values and behaviours; and how to change structures, systems and cultures.
Evaluation, research and engagement
Sophie Ahmad
Head of Research
Sophie is an experienced policy analyst specialising in the public and not-for-profit sectors.
Kate Allman
Senior Researcher
Kate’s particular interest is in working directly with service users to ensure their views contribute to service improvement.
Diane Beddoes
Senior Fellow
Diane leads our deliberative work and specialises in public and stakeholder engagement and evaluation.
Robin Clarke
Fellow
Robin’s areas of expertise include public involvement, particularly new deliberative methods.
Natasha Comber
Senior Researcher
Natasha has experience of social research and is skilled in a number of qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
Shelley Dorrans
Senior Fellow
Shelley has a particular interest in public health policy; community and public engagement; and children and young people’s issues.
Satdeep Grewal
Researcher
Satdeep has a background in social policy research and has worked closely with children and young people.
Annie Hedges
Fellow
Annie’s special interests are engaging harder-to-reach groups and research with children and young people.
Linda Jackson
Associate Fellow
Linda is skilled qualitative researcher with interests in community cohesion strategies and youth justice.
Leigh Johnston
Fellow
Leigh is an experienced mixed methods researcher with particular interest in evidence based policy and practice.
Mohini Khanna
Researcher
Mohini is particularly interested in issues related to equality and diversity, community cohesion, welfare and education.
Sarah McDonnell
Senior Researcher
Sarah is a qualitative researcher with a special interest in involving stakeholders in research.
Elliot Manches
Video Ethnographer
Elliot is an experienced ethnographer and filmmaker who documents people's stories
Lauren Roberts
Associate Fellow
Lauren has a particular interest in developing evidence-based approaches to policy making.
Shama Sarwar
Researcher
Shama’s interests are in improving access to services, and policy in family provision, education and community cohesion.
Sanah Sheikh
Associate Fellow
Sanah is a qualitative researcher who uses focus groups and deliberative methods to promote collaboration.
Lucy Smith
Senior Researcher
Lucy’s research covers a broad range of quantitative and qualitative projects, aimed at improving services.
Jean Taylor
Fellow
Jean specialises in qualitative research, stakeholder engagement and capacity building.
Rebecca Williams
Associate Fellow
Rebecca is an experienced social researcher and project manager with a keen interest in evidence-based policy evaluation.
Tim Vanson
Senior Researcher
A sociology graduate from Goldsmith’s College, Tim takes a keen interest in the cultural and community life of cities.
Leadership and organisational development
Antonia Bunnin
Fellow
Antonia has extensive experience in health, social care and the not-for-profit sector.
Bob Baker
Senior Fellow
Bob is a leadership specialist with significant experience across the private and public sectors.
Rob Francis
Associate Fellow
Rob is interested in local government, partnerships, community cohesion and 'sense of place'.
Gillian Gillanders
Senior Fellow
Gillian has extensive experience of strategy formulation, option appraisal, policy evaluation and performance management.
Liz Goold
Senior Fellow
Liz is an organisation specialist, facilitator and coach with over 20 years experience in the public and voluntary sectors.
Ayesha Janjua
Fellow
Particular interests: evidence based policy and practice; putting individuals at the heart of service provision.
Sharon Hunter
Fellow
Sharon has long experience in research and organisational development in children's services, housing and community safety.
Claire Lazarus
Senior Fellow
Claire has expertise in services for children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities, or who are in care.
Hywel Lloyd
Senior Fellow
Hywel is expert in strategic understanding – particularly across issues of sustainability, local service delivery and place making.
Catherine Mangan
Senior Fellow
Catherine improves efficient working across partnerships and ensures governance structures result in improved outcomes for communities.
Munira Thobani
Senior Fellow
Munira is interested in developing leadership to build people’s capacity to make a real difference.
Tim Whitworth
Senior Fellow
Tim supports organisations to design and deliver joined-up public services.
Communications
Jenny Havinden
Deputy Head, Communications
Jim Batty
Senior Designer
Justin Kary
Writer and Editor
Events and project support
Sheba Cheung
Head of Events and Project Support
Yee-Mai Wan
Project Co-ordinator
Aleth Abadie
Project Co-ordinator
Memona Ahmed
Project Co-ordinator
Anne Schuetz
Project Co-ordinator
Corporate support
Ann Evans
Corporate Support Officer
Tina Harding
Cost Accountant
Sarita Hughes
Reception Administrator
Franck Nicholas
Facilities Manager
Richard Peacock
Business Development and Marketing Executive
Ricci Pleszkan
Business Analyst and Project Accountant
Harjap Roopray
System Support Manager
Sonal Shah
Head of HR
Dave Stannard
Senior Project Accountant
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