UK Election 2015: Context and Prospects for British Governance
UK Election 2015: Context and Prospects for British Governance
Event Date: March 23, 2015 - 10:00 am Location: FSS4007, 120 University Private, , Ottawa
JON DAVIS, King’s College London.
Presented by the Graduate School of Political and International Affairs (GSPIA) and CIPS.
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
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Jon Davis is Director of Partnerships for the Policy Institute at King’s College London, where he works on British central government past and present. His Cabinet Office-sponsored PhD was published as Prime Ministers and Whitehall, 1960-74 in 2007. He is co-writing (with John Rentoul) a book on the machinery of government under New Labour. Before joining King’s, Dr. Davis spent a total of eighteen years at Queen Mary, University of London, and rose to be Director of the Mile End Group, overseeing more than 100 increasingly high-profile events over more than a decade. He was also a lecturer of the undergraduate courses ‘Cabinet, Premiership and the conduct of British Central Government since 1945’ and the MA courses ‘New Labour in Government’ and ‘The Hidden Wiring of British Government’. Prior to that, he worked for five years in investment banking as a liquidity analyst at JP Morgan, a bond analyst at Paribas and a financial control clerk at Hambros Bank, and spent 2000 in the Modernising Government Secretariat of the Cabinet Office.
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