Derek Gill

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Derek Gill is a former senior Public Servant at VUW’s Institute of Policy Studies.  He is leading the Public Management stream of the Emerging Issues Project underway between VUW and the Public Service.  Two particular areas of focus are a project on engaging user/ citizens in the design of public services and a project on managing for performance.   He has also contributed to development of the regional governance work in the Pacifica project.  Derek has also prepared research papers on the changing organisation structure of the New Zealand state and the challenges of governing at arms length through Crown entities.

Derek has wide-ranging policy interests but with a particular focus on Public Administration and Management based on his work at MSD (CYF), State Services Commission and the Treasury.  Derek has also been seconded to the OECD to work on public governance issues and earlier in his career worked in the NZ Embassy in Washington DC.

Publications

Ladley, A & Gill, D (2008) No State is an Island: Connected Governance in the South Pacific (Institute of Policy Studies, Wellington)

Gill, D (2008) 'By Accident or Design – Changes in the Structure of the State of the NZ' (Wellington, IPS, February).

Gill, D (2008) 'Crown Entity Reform in NZ – Pendulum Shift?' Paper to IRSPM Conference held over 26-28 March 2008 in Brisbane, Australia.

Gill, D (2007) 'Governing Alone or Governing with Others' Paper for IPS Workshop on Governance in the Pacific held in November.

Gill, D with Cheryl Barnes (2000) ''Declining Government Performance? Why Citizens Don’t Trust in Government' SSC Working Paper No 9, June.

Gill, D (2002) 'Distributed Public Governance - New Zealand"OECD

Gill, D (2002) 'Signposting the Zoo: From Agencification to a More Principled Choice of Organisational Form'OECD Journal of Budgeting, 2(1)

Gill, D (2000) 'New Zealand’s Experience with Public Management Reform:Why the Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence' International Journal of Public Management 3(1).

Gill, D with McCormack, J (2000) S'hared Service Centres' SSC Working Paper No 5, February.