In this session we will hear, from a comparative research, the different hiring procedures that governments use in different European countries and discuss how they can be improved. We will examine how the learnings of Public Practice, an innovative UK-based social enterprise that places creative professionals in local public organisations, can be taken by other governmental institutions.
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What does it take to be a public servant today?
Ramon Marrades, Nikki Linsell, Alba Soriano, Andrés Boix-Palop
Ramon Marrades is an urban economist, writer, and activist with a passion for people and places. He is currently Director at Placemaking Europe, founder at Vigla – an applied research start-up focused on designing urban futures–, and strategy advisor to a number of cities and large-scale development projects. Before, he has served as the Chief Strategy and Finance Officer at La Marina de València, Valencia’s waterfront redevelopment agency, and a board member of the Worldwide Network of Port Cities (AIVP).
He holds an Executive MSc in Cities from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an MSc in Economics and Geography from Utrecht University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Valencia. He has been a researcher at the University of Valencia (Spain), Western Sydney University (Australia), and FLACSO (Ecuador). He received the Spanish Social Entrepreneur Award in 2012. Ramon is co-editor of the book “Our City? Countering Exclusion in Public Space” (2019) and the host and co-curator of Placemaking Week Europe 2019 and 2022.
Nikki is an architecturally trained operations and change management consultant specialising in social impact startups. She has co-founded and helped set-up a number of social enterprises, including Architects-4-Aid, where she managed projects and ethnographic research across Asia and Africa. Following this, she moved into consultancy overseeing a university restructure and most recently helping to set-up and raise £750,000 in angel investment for a people analytics tech start-up. Nikki has also held senior lecturer positions in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Nottingham and Brighton and is currently writing up an EPSRC funded doctorate on the ethics and economics of the Architecture profession and ‘humanitarian capitalism’.
Alba Soriano graduated in Law, Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Valencia and also has an MSc in International Political Economy by the LSE. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Administrative Law of the University of Valencia.
Andrés Boix Palop (València, 1976) teaches Public Law at the University of València (Universitat de València) from 2007. He has also done research at other European Universities into administrative innovation regarding algorithmic decisions and the use of digital tools, new approaches to economic regulation and the role of modern bureaucracies in the safeguard of equality among citizens. He coordinates the Regulation Research Group at the University of València and the European Jean Monnet Network on Sharing Economy and Inequalities Across Europe.