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 The Nicolaas Witsen Foundation (NWF) is headed by its managing director, Ms Karin Plokker, a Russian-speaking policy analyst who has worked for the NWF since its inception in 1990. The director of consultancy is Mr Guy Hollis, a British public sector accountant with 35 years of experience as a senior official and latterly as a management consultant in government services. The staff of the NWF comprises an international team of senior and junior consultants, project managers, financial and administrative staff. This select group of reliable professionals combines enthusiasm and commitment with extensive practical experience in designing and implementing public administration reform. For the implementation of major assignments, the NWF manages project offices in the beneficiary countries. Ms Karin Plokker has managed several major technical assistance projects and numerous policy advice projects on public administration reform in the past fifteen years. As a consultant, she has extensive experience in developing and communicating high-level policy advice on public administration reform to senior officials in central government, facilitating change in complex organisations and translating the results of comparative research to local situations. She is familiar with a broad range of European experience and best practice in public administration, civil service reform, inter-governmental relations, decentralisation, human resource management and training. She has worked with the Presidential Administration and Cabinet of Ministers in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on the development and implementation of public administration reform in a wide range of areas, including legislative initiatives, civil service ethics and performance management. Karin Plokker holds university degrees in International Relations, Russian Studies and Business Administration, and has published several Russian-language textbooks on public administration reform. Mr Guy Hollis is a high-level public policy and reform adviser with extensive experience of leading strategic assignments in transitional countries. He joined the NWF in April 2001 following 17 years as a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers in London and 20 years as a public sector deputy finance director. From 1984 to 1993 he practiced mainly in the UK where he was centrally involved in the public sector reform agenda, in particular in government restructuring, inter-governmental finance, and government performance improvement. Since 1993, he has directed a number of major projects in the areas of policy studies, organisational reviews, institutional development and financial management. He has worked extensively in Central Europe, the CIS, South-Africa and the Middle East on a wide range of projects for the EU, World Bank, EBRD and the British Government. From 1999-2002, he was the lead expert of the Nicolaas Witsen Foundation's public administration reform project in Ukraine, where he worked closely with the Cabinet of Ministers on key policy topics such as transparent procurement systems, co-ordinating mechanisms for European integration, and the restructuring of the Anti-Monopoly Committee. From 2004-2007, he is the director of a major DFID project on administrative reform in the Russian Federation, which is working with key ministries on the implementation of performance management and performance budgeting. He is also advising the Government of Bulgaria on the implementation of its Anti-Corruption Strategy. Guy Hollis has published extensively in English and Russian on public administration reform and finance. | ||
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