Keynote Speaker
Steven Van de Walle is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders, and currently works as a researcher and research project co-ordinator at the Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He holds a Ph.d. in the Social Sciences (2004) and an M.A. in public administration (2000) and in political science (1999).
His research interests include citizens’ perceptions of the public sector, government-citizen relations, trust in government, satisfaction surveys, administrative performance, comparative public administration, governance indicators and quality management in government. He currently works on the project ‘ perceptions of public sector performance: linking performance indicators and public opinion ’, combining survey research and aggregate government performance indicators, and coordinates projects on participation in policy-making and on the development of a Confidence Barometer for the Flemish Government (Belgium).
He teaches citizen-government relations in public administration, and is co-chair of the Study Group on Productivity and Quality in the Public Sector of the European Group of Public Administration.
His publications include articles in International Review of Administrative Sciences, Public Management Review, International Journal of Public Administration, Public Performance and
Management Review, and Journal of Nonprofit and Public Sector Marketing.
Personal website: http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~u0025631/
Prof Doreen McBarnet is a Professor in Socio-Legal Studies at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Her main research interests are in the area of business finance and the law, corporate regulation and corporate responsibility, and the role of law and lawyers. Prof McBarnet has a PhD from the University of Glasgow and has previously lectured in Sociology at the University of Glasgow.
In addition to her socio-legal lecturing, she teaches Corporate Responsibility for the MBA at Oxford University’s Said Business School.
She has published extensively and in a range of disciplinary areas. Though she began her research in the area of criminal justice (Conviction, 1981), her more recent publications have focused on corporate governance, corporate regulation, transnational transactions, white collar crime and corporate responsibility. Recent books are Creative Accounting and the Cross-eyed Javelin Thrower (John Wiley, 1999, with Chris Whelan) and Crime, Compliance and Control (Ashgate 2004), with a book on The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law in preparation (with co-editors Tom Campbell and Aurora Voiculescu, Cambridge University Press).
Professor McBarnet is currently on research leave under the ESRC’s Professorial Fellowship scheme, working on a programme of research entitled Regulation, responsibility and the rule of law.