Who we are

The Better Governemnt Initiative was set up on the initiative of Sir Christopher Foster, who has been a professor of economics, an adviser to ministers from the 1970s to the 1990s and a non-executive director of Railtrack from 1994 to 2000. His book "British Government in Crisis" (2005) drew attention to many of the issues that the Group has been considering. The BGI's Organising Committee consists of: • Sir Christopher Foster (Chairman) long adviser to Governments, former public sector and economics practice leader Coopers and Lybrand, then adviser to the Chairman of PWC UK. • Helena Djurkovic (Secretary) former Strategy Director of Pearson Information. • Lord Butler, former Cabinet Secretary. • Sir Rodric Braithwaite, writer, former Ambassador to Russia and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee. • Sir John Chilcot, member of the Butler Committee, former Permanent Secretary of the Northern Ireland Office. • Sir Geoffrey Chipperfield, former Permanent Secretary of the Department of Energy. • Roger Dawe, former Director General for Further and Higher Education, Department for Education. • Sir Andrew Foster, former Controller of the Audit Commission and Deputy Chief Executive of the National Health Service. • Paul McQuail, former Deputy Secretary in the Department of the Environment and Chief Executive of the London Borough of Hounslow. • Sir Nicholas Monck, former Second Secretary HM Treasury and Permanent Secretary of the Department of Employment. • Sir David Omand, former Security and Intelligence Coordinator and Permanent Secretary at the Cabinet Office, former Permanent Secretary of the Home Office. • Peter Owen, former Head of the Cabinet Economic and Home Affairs Secretariat and Director General for Schools. • Phillip Ward, former Director of Local Government Performance in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. • Andreas Whittam Smith, journalist, founder and former editor of The Independent. Contact: info@bettergovernmentinitiative.co.uk