Date: Tuesday 11 November 2014
Time: 5-6.30pm
Venue: Alumni Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Kate Jenkins
Chair: Professor Tony Travers

This event will analyse the development of the contemporary civil service, in particular its traditions of impartiality and generalisation, the structure of central government departments and the willingness of successive governments to reconfigure Whitehall.

Kate Jenkins is Vice Chair of the LSE Court of Governors and Visiting Professor in the Government Department.

Tony Travers specialises in issues affecting local government and is Director of the Greater London Group and British Government @ LSE.

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