PUBLIC WORLD - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Programme Design and Comms Lead
Ali not only leads on the design and production of our learning and development programme but also makes sure we stay on brand. She also keeps us ‘social' on all our media so that clients, partners and friends are kept up-to-date with our work.
We're delighted and very grateful that Anna is bringing her vast experience and understanding of health and social care to our work. Both the Archbishops' Reimagining Care Commission, which Anna chaired, and the ADASS Time to Act report, which she co-authored with Kate Jopling, articulated a vision and an urgency we share. Together we're on a mission to improve lives, communities and jobs through our neighbourhood care model that puts humanity before bureaucracy.
Brendan has a a long track record of helping public service organisations improve services and working lives through the power of engaged employees. Drawing on his three decades experience in 70 countries, Brendan leads our work to develop trust-based cultures to support freedom with responsibility at work.
A journalist and broadcaster by background, his passion to create better services, jobs and organisational performance through self-managed team work and workforce and community involvement runs through everything he does as the founder of Public World and Managing Director of Buurtzorg Britain and Ireland.
Jade's highly valued PA expertise across many sectors is what keeps us on topic, on time and in the right place! Jade manages our busy schedules, liaises with our clients and suppliers to ensure all the necessary paperwork and admin are in place and the bills are paid.
She makes sure we pay full attention to every necessary detail while keeping our admin as simple as possible - which, as a core principle of working in the Buurtzorg way, is so important to us!
Marie Duboc is a director of Public World and a specialist in labour relations in the Middle East. She also has wide international experience in public service reform, including frontline work on sustainable development and the effects of conflict in Africa.
She led Public World's study of primary education in Mali as part of our basic services project with OxfamGB, and has carried out research for the Solidarity Center (AFL-CIO) to assess Egypt's compliance with international labour conventions.
Her earlier work with NGOs included two years with Saferworld, as a project officer in the conflict prevention team of the African programme, and a policy co-ordination role with the Stakeholder Forum's Governance and Policy programme.
Marie led the French language work when Public World organised the global electronic discussion about the 2004 World Development Report, Making Services Work for Poor People, for the World Bank, and has also worked on consultation processes in the United Nations and EU international development frameworks.
Based until recently in Cairo, where her research focused on workers' strikes and labour relations in Egypt, Marie has now returned to Paris, where her PhD was awarded by the University of Paris School of Advanced Social Sciences Studies (EHESS). She also holds an MA (History) from the Sorbonne and an MSc (Comparative Politics) from the London School of Economics, and is fluent in English as well as her native French, with advanced level Arabic and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Nurse
- Nurse in the South England for the NHS
Michelle is a highly trained nurse with a special interest in wound care. Having worked with Buurtzorg in the Netherlands for 5 years, Michelle found a love for utilizing creativity and patients own motivations to work within the limitations of a home care setting. Delivering a high standard of care and assurance has been possible because of the innovative approaches of Buurtzorg.
Having moved to the UK, Michelle is now a nurse in the south England for the NHS and is learning to adapt to the differences in approach and the limitations of the bureaucratic nature of our systems. She can see the opportunities to introduce elements of the Buurtzorg style of working and looks forward to sharing her experiences.
Rachel has an exceptional history in supporting mission-led organisations in their ambition to grow and have a bigger impact. Having been the backbone of our organisation for many years Rachel now uses her experience to lead our operations and account management. She makes sure we're on track with all the planning and delivery of our change programmes with a growing number of different organisations in an ever-widening range of sectors.
Having been a key member of our project teams in many of those programmes, and with experience of working closely with Buurtzorg for the last five years, especially as our lead in the Transforming Integrated Community Care project, she is also hands-on with several of our programmes.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Editor for the Radical Notion
Having completed a Master's degree in Social Research, Rose is currently working on her PhD research into the work of grassroots community organisations during the pandemic. She is considering whether grassroots community organisations were effective in helping to meet human needs during the first lockdown in England, and what are the conditions of possibility to enable an organisation to support human flourishing.
Rose is currently an editor for The Radical Notion, an internationally distributed feminist magazine and has also been an Associate Editor for Contention: A multi-disciplinary journal of social protest.
Stephen Commins is a director of Public World and a specialist in essential services delivery in fragile and conflict-affected states (FCAS) and in local government roles in disaster risk reduction.
He has very wide developing country experience with both international institutions and non-governmental organisations, and was team leader of our project with Britain's Department for International Development (DFID), completed in June 2013, to evaluate the use of pooled funds to support service delivery in FCAS.