Quality Governance Collaborative free virtual Seminar on Tuesday 17 November 2020 at 6:30 – 7:45pm will cover ‘What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About Effective Governance’.
This is the second seminar in a series of virtual governance seminars presented by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh’s Quality Governance Collaborative. They are designed for all individuals who are interested in governance and discuss, learn and debate governance ideas and issues. Individuals who are Chairs, Non-executive Directors and Executive Directors of Boards in health, social care and other institutions as well as Fellows and Members of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh are particularly invited to attend. The series will critically examine pertinent governance issues, which Chairs and Board members are obliged to address when discharging their corporate and clinical duties. The debates will allow the delegates to question and critique the presentations by experts (following the Chatham House rule). The QGC strongly encourages an open, fluid and diverse dialogue. This event will be delivered entirely online due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Professor Ngaire Woods will discuss how COVID-19 has confounded predictions and expectations about governance. Prior to the current pandemic, researchers across the world gauged a country’s pandemic preparedness by measuring its economic resources, institutional capacity, public health system and communications, and infrastructure. Yet the pandemic has revealed other crucial factors which have shaped the effectiveness (or not) of country responses. This discussion will examine the lessons we might draw about governance – for countries, organizations, and globally.
Chair: Professor Michael Deighan | Director of the Quality Governance Collaborative
Speaker: Professor Ngaire Woods | Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University
Professor Ngaire Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at Oxford University. Her research focuses on how to enhance the governance of organizations, the challenges of globalization, global development and the role of international institutions and global economic governance. She founded the Global Economic Governance Programme at Oxford University, and co-founded (with Robert O. Keohane) the Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship programme. She led the creation of the Blavatnik School of Government.
Ngaire Woods serves as a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s International Advisory Panel, and on the Boards of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the Stephen A. Schwarzman Education Foundation. She is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rio Tinto (effective September 2020). She sits on the advisory boards of the Centre for Global Development, the African Leadership Institute, the School of Management and Public Policy at Tsinghua University, and the Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy at Cape Town University. She is Chair of the Harvard University Visiting Committee on International Engagement and sits on the Harvard Kennedy School Visiting Committee. She is a member of the UK Government National Leadership Centre's Expert Advisory Panel, and of the Department for International Trade’s Trade and Economy Panel. She is an honorary governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
