BGF Annual Conference 08
Thursday 16th October 2008 @ Hard Days Night Hotel, Liverpool
Speakers
Derek Elliott CIPFA, FCCA, MA
Audit Commission
Head of Good Conduct & Counter Fraud Network
Derek is CIPFA and ACCA qualified and has more than 30 years’ experience of public sector external auditing. He is also a member of the Institute of Counter Fraud Specialist and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and has successfully completed an MA in Fraud Management.
Derek is currently District Auditor and Relationship Manager for three outer London boroughs, as well as a number of primary care trusts in the London area.
Derek also heads the Audit Commission’s Good Conduct and Counter Fraud Knowledge Network and has been influential in developing the Audit Commission’s approach to this area of the auditor’s responsibility.
Joshua Rozenberg
Britain’s best-known commentator on the law
He was the BBC’s Legal Correspondent for 15 years before moving in 2000 to The Daily Telegraph, where he continues to write a weekly column as the newspaper’s Legal Editor.
He has a particular interest in constitutional reform, dating back to his time as producer of The Week in Westminster on BBC Radio 4. Freedom of expression is another of his interests, his most recent book being Privacy and the Press. Earlier books include Trial of Strength, which examined the tensions between ministers and judges under the last Conservative government; The Search for Justice, an anatomy of the law in the mid-1990’s and The Case for the Crown, which charted the launch of the Crown Prosecution Service.
Joshua also has a regular weekly column in The Evening Standard on business law and a fortnightly column for The Law Society Gazette.
Literary
- Privacy and the Press – Oxford University Press, 2004 (updated 2005)
- Trial of Strength: The Battle Between the Government and the Judiciary Over Who Makes the Laws of Britain – Richard Cohen Books Ltd, 1997
- The Search for Justice: An Anatomy of the Law – Teach Yourself Books, 1994
- The Case for the Crown: Inside Story of the Director of Public Prosecutions – Equation, 1987
Colin Hilton
Chief Executive of Liverpool City Council
Colin was appointed as Chief Executive of the City of Liverpool in July 2006. He is also a member of the Liverpool Direct Limited Board, the Liverpool Arena & Conference Centre Board and North West Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.
Born and educated primarily in Merseyside he graduated from the University of Wales and taught for 10 years in Bridgend, Coventry and the USA. He has worked for Buckinghamshire, Knowsley and St. Helens Councils before coming to Liverpool in October 1999 as Executive Director for Education, Library and Sports Services.
Colin has acted as an education adviser to the Local Government Association, was a member of Greater Merseyside Connexions Board and has supported a number of LEA’s subject to intervention. In January 2006 New Year’s Honours he was awarded the CBE for services to Education.
Dr David Hancock
Director of Risk & Assurance, London Development Agency
Winner of the ALARM, Risk Manager of the Year Award 2008
Dr David Hancock is Director of Risk & Assurance for the London Development Agency (LDA) with responsibilities for risk management and audit services throughout the Agency and its partner’s programmes, across London. The variety of projects he is involved with ranges from construction and infrastructure projects such as Wembley stadium, Crystal Palace, Stephen Lawrence Centre and the Olympics, to tourism, health, community cohesion, worklessness and the Mayor's Food Strategy. Before that for 5 years he was the Resources Director with Halcrow Group Ltd, responsible for the global development and expansion of their Consultancy business.
He sees project and risk management as a social intervention rather than just the routine application of programme and project processes. He was responsible for developing and delivering the Opportunity-Risk management system for the £4.2bn Terminal 5 Project working for the clients of British Airways and BAA which is considered ground breaking in risk management. Prior to that he was risk Manager for the contractor on the Copenhagen Metro project and Principal engineer responsible for risk management on the Nirex project for the disposal of nuclear waste.
He is a chartered engineer and a chartered fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and has a degree and PhD in Engineering from the University of Nottingham, supported by an MBA from the University of Bath and political and social science qualification from the University of Oxford. He is a member of the Major Projects Association Programme Committee and an advisor to Cranfield University School of Management on risk, project and programme management and was a finalist in the ALARM 2008 Risk Manager of the Year awards.
Glenys Stacey
Before joining the Standards Board for England, Glenys was Chief Executive of Animal Health – the British-wide executive agency responsible for managing the field response to outbreaks of notifiable animal disease. Such diseases include avian influenza and foot and mouth.
Glenys is a solicitor by profession, and has been a public sector chief executive for more than ten years. Formerly, she was first Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Magistrates’ Courts Committee. She was also first Chief Executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, a non-departmental public body responsible for the review and investigation of suspected miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Alexander Plavsic
Partner, Head of Fraud (covering both Investigations and Risk Management Solutions)
Alex qualified as a chartered accountant in 1989 and has worked in KPMG Forensic since 1991. He was seconded during 1998 to Allied Domecq Plc as director of fraud services. Alex became a forensic partner in October 1998 and is now Head of Fraud Services at KPMG. He is a member of the Fraud Advisory Panel.
Alex has over fifteen years experience of investigative and regulatory work for public and private sectors. His work has included investigations of financial and other irregularities such as: fraud, impropriety, manipulation of accounting information, accounting breakdowns and regulatory enquiries.
He has worked on a number of high profile cases such as Polly Peck, Grupo Torras and the investigation of Jeffrey Archer in relation to the Simple Truth appeal.
Mark Babington
Mark Babington is Financial Audit Director at the UK National Audit Office; he is responsible for the audit of a portfolio of Defence bodies, EU Agricultural Funds and is also responsible for the NAO’s work on fraud and economic crime. Prior to his work on Defence, Mark worked on HM Customs and Excise revenue protection and anti-fraud systems, commissioning a number of reports on the economic analysis of risk, and has experience of a wide range of governmental accounts as well as those of international bodies which he audited working for the United Nations Board of Auditors.
Mark has served as a short-term expert advisor to a number of other supreme audit offices, including Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia. He is currently the UK representative on the Board of External Auditors of OCCAR, the College of Auditors of the EU Satellite Centre, Chairman of the ATHENA College of Auditors, and is also a past Member and Chairman of the EUMETSAT External Audit Team. He is also a member of the Fraud Advisory Panel, the Fraud and Integrity Advisory Panel and is participating in the working group setting up the National Strategic Fraud Authority in the UK, as well as chairing its Measurement Implementation Working Group.
Mark was educated at York University taking a degree in History, qualifying after that as a Chartered Accountant. Mark has also served as Chairman of the Core Group of the European VAT Working Group, a pan European group designed to tackle to risks of VAT fraud.
Jeremy Scholes
Director, Walker Morris
Jeremy studied law at Cambridge University and then completed a postgraduate degree in EC law from the Collège d’Europe in Belgium. As well as his work at Walker Morris, he teaches competition law at The City Law School at The City University, London, and is visiting professor in the Université Nancy II in eastern France.
He has over 25 years’ experience of all aspects of competition law (corporate transactions, litigation, dealing with regulatory authorities (investigations, complaints, etc.), advisory work and compliance and in-house training) across a wide range of sectors.
Jeremy has significant experience of lobbying in the EU institutions, regularly advises RDAs and local authorities on state aids matters, is actively involved in the main OFT cartel investigations of recent years (independent schools; bid-rigging in the construction industry; supermarkets/suppliers). He is recognised in the Legal 500 as an expert in competition law, and has been treated in High Court detailed costs proceedings as the equivalent of a QC.
He is the co-author of the standard reference work on commercial agency in English law (Saintier and Scholes, Commercial Agents and the Law (Lloyd’s of London Press, 2005)). This was heavily relied upon by the House of Lords in the judgment in the leading case on the subject, Lonsdale (Agencies) v. Howard & Hallam Ltd. [2007] UKHL 32.
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