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2-7 May 2010
Melbourne

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This executive workshop examines the distinctive strategic and managerial challenges that surround government's regulatory and enforcement functions, recognising that the quality of life in a democracy depends heavily on when and how government agencies exercise their coercive power over individuals and institutions.

This course will focus principally on issues of social regulation (the abatement or control of risks to society), although economic regulation will also be considered and discussed. The course focuses on the operations and management of regulatory and enforcement agencies rather than on reforms of the legal frameworks under which they operate. Current prescriptions for reform (such as those oriented toward customer service and process improvement) will be examined in light of the distinctive character of the regulatory task, which values broader public purposes more than satisfying individuals or corporations.

 Who Should Attend?

The course is designed for senior policy makers and senior enforcement officials who oversee, support or run organisations that have a significant regulatory or enforcement component. Typical participants will be managers of units or divisions focused on bringing regulatory and enforcement strategies to maturity.

Participants will represent a broad range of regulatory areas: tax and finance, environment and resources management, primary industries, law enforcement, customs, occupational health and safety, transport, communications and media and functional responsibilities including compliance, legal, budgeting and operations.

Course Leader - Malcolm Sparrow

Malcolm Sparrow is a foremost international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. He is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, and Faculty Chair of the Executive Program on Strategic Management of Regulator and Enforcement Agencies. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems & Managing Compliance.

A mathematician by training, he joined the British Police Service in 1977, serving for ten years and rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. At that rank, he headed the Kent County Constabulary Fraud Squad. During that time, he conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and had extensive experience of criminal investigation and general police management. In 1988, he left the police service to take up a faculty appointment at Harvard University.

His research interests relate to the risk-control functions of government, and to the special managerial challenges, which confront agencies of social regulation and law enforcement. He is an international published author in areas of regulation, fraud, policing, and ethics.

He is the patent holding inventor in the area of Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS); having developed the topological approach to fingerprint matching that is now built into the FBI’s new NCIC system.

 

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