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President
Mr. Paul Zahra, Permanent Secretary (Policy), Malta
Mr. Zahra joined the Malta Public Service in 1984 and served at the Economic Division within the Office of the Prime Minister. During 1989-1992, he was personal assistant to the Economic Secretary and Chief Economics Officer at the Ministry of Finance. In 1993 he was appointed Head of the Economic Policy Division and subsequently Director (Economic Strategy) and Director General (Economic Policy). Since 2001 Mr. Zahra discharged duties as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry for Economic Services and the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Zahra is also the Chairman of the State Aid Monitoring Board. Mr Zahra was appointed Permanent Secretary (Policy), OPM in March 2006 and re-designated Permanent Secretary (Operations), OPM in June 2008.
Vice - President
Mr. Ramesh C. Misra , Secretary, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances, & Pensions, India
Mr. Ramesh C. Misra started his civil service career by joining the Indian Administrative Service in 1976. As a career bureaucrat, he has served the State Government of Orissa and Government of India, in various capacities. He holds Master’s Degree in Political Science. He was a Pearson Fellow in Canada in 1986-87. Besides, he has completed a course in Financial Management in Harvard University in 2009. With the Government of India, Mr. Misra has held very senior positions. He was Additional Secretary and Financial Advisor in the Ministry of Information and broadcasting, and the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications. Presently, he is holding the charge of Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, and Department of Pensions and Pensioners’ Welfare, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. He is active in professional, international and administrative network.
Honorary Treasurer
Ms. Lim Soo Hoon, Permanent Secretary, Public Service Division, Singapore
Ms. Lim is currently the Permanent Secretary of the Public Service Division (Prime Minister`s Office). Ms. Lim has been a civil servant for the last 28 years, serving in different postings including the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Manpower and Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports. She is also the Chairman of the Civil Service College. Ms. Lim has a B. Econs from the University of Adelaide, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Members
Mr. Stephen Sedgwick, Australia Public Service Commissioner, Australia
 Mr Sedgwick has had a long and distinguished career in the public sector having served as the Secretary to the Commonwealth Departments of Finance, Employment and Education between 1992 and 2002. He became Australian Public Service Commissioner in December 2009 after a period as Professor and Director of the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. He is a former Commissioner and Chairperson of the Industry Commission, a former senior officer of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and was the Senior Economic Adviser to Prime Minister Hawke from 1985 to 1988.
Mrs. Avril Gollop, Head of the Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary, Barbados
Mrs. Gollop started her career in the public service in the Ministry of Health, where she remained for 13 years. During this period she worked as the Secretary to the Committee to establish the Division of Health Sciences at the Barbados Community College. Her experience in the service has been varied with postings in the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of Tourism, International Transport Division and the Ministry of the Civil Service from 1992 until her appointment as Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism in 1994. Mrs. Gollop became the first female to be appointed Cabinet Secretary in 1996 and in 2000 the first female to become Head of the Civil Service. She continues to hold both posts.
Mr. Eric Molale, Permanent Secretary to the President and Head of the Public Service, Botswana
Mr. Molale started his working career as an Assistant District Officer (Development) in Tsabong in 1981. He joined the Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing as the Chief Housing Officer in 1988. He went back to work in Tsabong as a District Commissioner 1991. Thereafter, he assumed position as Private Secretary to the Vice President in 1994. He joined the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning as Chief Economist (Rural Development) in 1994 and later took the position as Deputy Coordinator of Rural Development in the ministry in 1996. Mr Molale continued to work in the public service and went back to the Ministry of Local Government, Lands and Housing as Deputy Permanent Secretary in 1996. He took position as Senior Private Secretary to the President in 1998.
Ms. Daphne Meredith, Chief Human Resources Officer, Treasury Board of Canada, Canada
Ms. Daphne Meredith was appointed Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) for the Government of Canada as of August 31, 2009.Prior to her appointment, she served as Associate Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) since August 2006. Ms. Meredith has also held senior executive positions at the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS), as Assistant Secretary of the Economic Sector and then as Assistant Secretary of the newly-created Corporate Planning and Priorities Sector. Ms. Meredith began her career in the Public Service in 1983 as an economist at Natural Resources Canada and has held a number of positions within the federal government since that time. She has worked on financial sector policy and tax policy at the Department of Finance, on priorities and planning as well as cabinet business relating to social development policy at the Privy Council Office, and on strategic management at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She has also worked with the private sector as a government policy consultant.
Hon. Dalmas A. Otieno, Minister for the Ministry of State for Public Service, Kenya
His career spans both politics and business worlds. He began working in the insurance and banking sectors before joining politics where he was first elected to Parliament in 1988. Upon election, he was appointed a Government Minister and served in various Ministries between 1988-1996: Industry; Manpower Planning and Employment; Transport and Communications. In 2008, Hon. Otieno was once again appointed a Minister following his election to Parliament. Due to his distinguished service to the nation, he has been bestowed with national honour awards: Elder of the Order of the Burning Spear of Kenya (EBS) – 1986 and Elder of the Order of the Golden Heart of Kenya (EGH) – 1989. As the Minister of State for Public Service, he was in 2008 elected and continues serving as the Chairman of the Conference of African Ministers for Public/Civil Service.
Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan, Chief Secretary to the Government, Malaysia
Tan Sri Mohd Sidek bin Haji Hassan, formerly Secretary-General of the Ministry of Trade and Industry, was officially appointed as the Chief Secretary to the Government by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong effective on 3 September 2006. He started his service as an Administrative and Diplomatic Officer on 15 April 1974 as an Assistant Secretary at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He was once a Principal Assistant Director of the Implementation Coordination Unit at the Prime Minister’s Department. Tan Sri Mohd Sidek bin Haji Hassan has expansive working experience within the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. During his service in the ministry, he held the positions of the Malaysian Trade Commissioner in Sydney, Australia, Deputy Director of Policy in the Industrial Development Division, Deputy Director (Operations) in the Policy and Research Division, Minister Counselor of Economic Affairs of the Malaysian Trade Commissioner’s Office in Washington DC, United States, and Director of the Multilateral Relations Division.
Mr. Benjamin C. Eghan, Cabinet Secretary, Republic of Ghana
Prior to this appointment as Secretary to the Cabinet, Mr. Eghan was the immediate Past Dean of the GIMPA Public Services School (GPSS). Before that, Mr. Eghan served from 1993 to 2002 as a Chief Director, Permanent Secretary, beginning with the Ministries of; Environment; Science and Technology; Communication; Transport and Communication; and finally, Manpower Development and Employment. Prior to that, he was a Senior Lecturer at GIMPA and at the same time worked in advisory capacity in Government contributing greatly to the restructuring of Ministerial Organizations and decentralization of national administration. He has served on numerous committees including for the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Economic Commission for Africa).
Mr. Iain Rennie, State Services Commissioner, New Zealand
Mr. Rennie took up the position of State Services Commissioner on 1 July 2008. The State Services Commissioner is a statutory appointment, made by the Governor General on the recommendation of the Prime Minister. Mr Rennie has been in the Public Service since 1986. The majority of his career has been spent at the Treasury where he was Deputy Secretary to the Treasury for nine years prior to taking up the position of Deputy State Services Commissioner in 2007. He has participated in two secondments to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, as Acting Director for the Policy Advisory Group in 2004, and as an Economic Advisor from 1990 to 1993.
Ms. Amal Pepple, Former Head of Service of the Federation, Nigeria
Ms. Amal Inyingiala Pepple, CFR, was, until June 2009, the Head of the Civil Service of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A very distinguished bureaucrat, with a track record of excellence in public service, she has served in various strategic leadership positions, at the Federal and State levels, for over three decades. Prior to her appointment as the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation in June 2008, she was one of the most experienced bureaucrats in the Federal Civil Service, going by her breath of experience as Permanent Secretary in the following key Ministries: Federal Ministry of Transport, FMOT, (June-99 Feb.2000), Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, FMI & NO, (Feb2000-Jan2001), Ministry of Petroleum Resources ( Jan’2001 – Jan – 2004), Federal Ministry of Commerce ( Jan’ 2004 – May 2005), Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources, May, 2005 – Nov’ 2007 ; Federal Ministry of Finance (Nov.2007-June 2008).
Mr. Rod Clark, Principal and Chief Executive of the National School of Government, UK
Mr. Clark has been the Principal and Chief Executive of the National School of Government since August 2008. Previously he was the interim Executive Director at the Legal Services Commission. He was a Director General with the Ministry of Justice with responsibility for Strategy and he played a major role in the launch of the department in 2007. Previously he established the Strategy Unit at DWP and led the development of its five year departmental plan. Prior to that he has held a number of senior roles in DWP and DSS and worked on an HM Treasury project setting up a new agency. He has also spent time working in the private sector with PA Consulting.
Ms. Lynelle Briggs, CEO, Medicare Australia, Australia, Past President, CAPAM
In August 2009, Ms. Briggs became the Chief Executive Officer of Medicare Australia. From November 2004, Lynelle fulfilled the role of Australian Public Service Commissioner. As Public Service Commissioner, Lynelle was responsible for the ethical and employment leadership of the Australian Public Service. In her twenty-eight years with the Australian Public Service, Lynelle has worked for the former Dpt. of Social Security, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Treasury and the then Department of Health and Aged
Co-opted Members
Mr. Ransford Smith, Deputy Secretary-General Commonwealth Secretariat
Mr. Nick Manning, Manager, Public Sector Governance, World Bank
Directors Emeritus
Hon. Jocelyne Bourgon, Canada
Tan Sri Dato Seri Ahmad Sarji, Malaysia
Hon. Zola Skweyiya, South Africa
Mohan Kaul, United Kingdom
Sir Richard Mottram, United Kingdom
Sir Kenneth Stowe, United Kingdom
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