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NewIn Conversation with Lord McDonald of Salford: Leadership in a Changing World

Leadership is a valuable skill in all walks of life, but especially when you’re responsible for an organisation with over 14,000 staff in 170 countries, dealing with the most important issues on the world stage!

 

Leadership in a Changing World Webinar

 

In Civil Service College’s second In Conversation event of 2024, on Wednesday, 15 May from 14:00 to 15:00 BST, Director of International Partnerships Jonathan Pearse MBE will meet former diplomat Lord McDonald of Salford to discuss his experience of leadership from forty years of representing the UK at the highest level.

Simon McDonald has had a varied and distinguished career in diplomacy, having worked as Principal Private Secretary, Ambassador and most recently Permanent Under-Secretary for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 2015-2020.Topics of discussion will include leadership in the public sector, what it takes to successfully manage a large organisation and how the UK can show leadership on the international stage in the 2020s and beyond.

Submit your questions in advance to ben@civilservicecollege.org.uk and get involved in the discussion.

 

Lord McDonald is a former diplomat who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service until September 2020. He was the last professional head of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, before the department was merged with the former Department for International Development. He has been the Master of Christ's College, Cambridge since September 2022, and in 2023 published a book, Leadership: Lessons from a Life in Diplomacy, detailing his experiences in diplomacy.

 

Jonathan Pearse MBE began working in Westminster in 1995 as a Parliamentary Assistant in the office of the then Leader of the Opposition Tony Blair. Following the General Election of 1997, Jonathan worked in the Political Office at 10 Downing Street, firstly as a Political Assistant and then as an Assistant Political Secretary to the Prime Minister focussing on party and stakeholder engagement and the government’s legislative agenda in the House of Lords. From 2007 to 2010, Jonathan was a Special Adviser to the Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council where he worked on all aspects of House of Lords business and political support for Government Peers. Following the 2010 General Election, Jonathan moved to the Leader of the Opposition and Opposition Chief Whip’s Office in the House of Lords as a Senior Political Adviser and Private Secretary. His long experience in both government and opposition covers a wide range of activities including the legislative process, election campaigns and political communications.

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14:00 - 15:00

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