Good Governance: An Integrity Approach (Webinar)
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Location: Webinar
- Cost: Free
- More information: Registration Required
- Contact: Stretton Institute Ground Floor, Napier Building
- Email: strettoninstitute@adelaide.edu.au
- Dr Nikolas Kirby Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University
The Stretton Institute invites you to a webinar on good governance, presented by Oxford University's Dr Nikolas Kirby.
Without good governance and without integrity our efforts in government are very hollow. Globally there is increasing anxiety about the quality of government institutions and apparent declining popular support for them. Australia is no exception.
This seminar, by Oxford University academic Dr Nikolas Kirby, will explore conceptions of good governance. We have all seen checklists of what makes up good governance, and this seminar takes a different tack. It explores the conceptual underpinnings of good governance and integrity, and will lay out concepts that you can relate to your agency. Dr Kirby will introduce a positive 'integrity' conception of good governance as a structure that ensures that government agents exercising the executive function have a robust basis to rationally pursue the public interest.
Some of this material was prepared by Dr Kirby for the recent Independent Review of the Australian Public Service (Thodey Review)
About the Speaker:
Nikolas Kirby is Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government. He is also Director of the Building Integrity Programme within the School. Nikolas was educated at the University of Sydney (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons)) and the University of Oxford (BPhil, DPhil), as a Rhodes Scholar. He has worked in law, academia and politics in Australia. In the UK, he currently co-convenes the Australia Forum, a public policy group meeting monthly in Oxford and London debating creative ideas for Australia’s future.