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Ballymena Belfast Craigavon Enniskillen Londonderry Omagh
This meeting is to be held at Grosvenor House Belfast on the 13th May 2003.
Brian was Chief Executive and Town Clerk of Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland’s largest district council, from 1994 to 2002.
He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and in January 2002 became its National President. Brian is also a member of the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, a member of the National Society for Clean Air and also the United Kingdom Sustainable Development Commission. He was awarded CBE in the 2000 New Years Honour’s list, invited to become a Companion of the Institute of Management in 2001 and in that same year given an honorary degree, a Doctor of Science (Econ), by Queen’s University Belfast.
Professor Alan Alexander, Chair of Scottish Water (since April 2002), and Chairman of West of Scotland Water (1999-2002) retired from the Chair of Local and Public Management at the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde in July 2000. He is now Emeritus Professor.
As Chair, Professor Alexander has responsibility for the strategic leadership of Scottish Water, for ensuring the creation of a new and efficient water utility and for demonstrating the effectiveness of a new public sector model for the water industry in Scotland. The operating environment will be one in which the Water Industry Commissioner’s recommendation (accepted by Scottish Ministers) of very challenging targets for the reduction of operating costs and the achievement of major efficiencies in Scottish Water’s huge capital programme will have to be met if the public sector model is to be successful.
Professor Alexander is author of Local Government in Britain Since Reorganisation (1982), The Politics of Local Government in the United Kingdom (1982), Borough Government and Politics: Reading 1835-1985 (1985), Managing the Fragmented Authority (written jointly with Kevin Orr, 1994), of a Fabian Pamphlet, Managing Local Socialism (1986) and many articles in academic journals.
He has been a leading member of two local authorities and he served on the Board of the Housing Corporation from 1977 to 1980. In 1992 he was the sole academic member of The Scottish Office Working Party on the Internal Management of Local Authorities.
In 1998-1999 he was a member of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament (The McIntosh Commission)
He has been appointed as a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland with effect from October 2002.
Andrea Cook OBE has had a distinguished career in the public, private and voluntary sectors in both an executive and non-executive capacity. This has encompassed policy responsibility in employment, energy, and water and incorporated an extensive knowledge of regulatory issues and consumer affairs.
As Director of NEA, the national energy efficiency charity, she increased financial support from Government from £15 million to £250 million per annum to improve comfort and warmth for those who are poor and vulnerable, resulting in the insulation of 4 million homes. She has also, therefore, significant operational experience.
She is knowledgeable in matters of corporate governance. From 1995-1999 she was a member of the Government’s UK Round Table on Sustainable Development and chaired its study of Economic Regulation which covered energy, transport and water. She is committed to the integration of economic, environmental and social objectives.
Ms Cook is currently Chairman of WaterVoice Northumbria, the statutory Ofwat Customer Service Committee for Northumbria, and a member of its’ National Council, which is preparing for the establishment of a Consumer Council for Water.
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DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND PERSONNEL
David is Treasury Officer of Accounts in the Department of Finance and Personnel. He is directly accountable for promoting and overseeing the systems which underpin value for money and Assembly/Parliamentary accountability and is responsible to PAC for the discharge of DFP Supply/Value for Money responsibilities in respect of all departmental expenditure.
David is a chartered accountant, who has previously worked in the Industrial Development Board, the then Department of Economic Development and the Department of the Environment.
WATER SERVICE
John Kelly is Acting Chief Executive of Water Service and is a Chartered Civil Engineer by profession. He has had over 35 years experience in the Water Industry in Northern Ireland, both prior to the reorganisation of local government, and in the 30 years since. His experience has ranged across design, construction and operations management. During his recent 11 years as Director of Operations he fostered a more customer orientated delivery of service, including the creation of customer service units in 4 Water Service geographical Divisions.
DEPARTMENT FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Jackie is Director of Infrastructure Funding in the Department for Regional Development, and is Head of the Water Reform Unit. Jackie has been involved in the development of strategic policy on water and sewerage issues since moving to the former Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland in 1999.
Jackie is a professionally qualified accountant (CIPFA), who has previously worked in the Department of Finance and Personnel, Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Health and Social Services.
