Dr Randhir Auluck is Head of School (SOES), Westminster Business School at the University of Westminster in London, UK. Previously, she was Associate Head of School: Enterprise & Innovation in the School of Leadership & Strategy at Coventry University where she led the School’s Executive Development and CPD programmes (value over £11M) and partnerships. Also, she is a City Councillor for Coventry City Council and is Vice-Chair of the Planning Committee. Randhir has specific expertise in local government, public service reform, leadership development, human resource management and diversity management and has led various leadership development projects in the public sector and the corporate sector.

Prior to this, Randhir held a number of roles in the Centre for Management and Policy Studies (Cabinet Office) including Head of International Projects – Africa, and in the National School of Government. She has led a large number of institutional strengthening and capacity-building programmes internationally and has been on secondment to both the South African Public Service in Pretoria and to the French Ministry of Industry, Finance and Economy in Paris. She has acted as advisor to a variety of international governments including India, Bangladesh, Namibia, Malawi, Uganda and South Africa, and led on a capacity building project with the Government of Ethiopia/the Ethiopian Management Institute/the Civil Service College.

She has front-line delivery experience both in local government as a qualified social worker specialising in child protection and family work in Coventry and Southwark, and in the voluntary sector, working with the homeless in Swansea. Randhir is a Magistrate (Justice of the Peace), on the Board of Coventry Relate (a counselling service) and the Central Academies Trust (schools), and is Vice Chair of the Board of the Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre.

Randhir received her ESRC funded PhD from Warwick Business School and her Masters in Social Policy and Social Work from York University. Her research work has been published in a range of journals including Personnel Review, International Review of Administrative Sciences, Industrial and Commercial Training, Leadership and Organisation Development Journal and British Journal of Social Work. She is the Project Director and Co-Chair of the Public Service Reform Working Group of the International Association of Schools and Institutes of Administration (IASIA/IIAS) and has presented papers at various international conferences as well as to the United Nations Ad Hoc Committee of Experts on Public Administration.

The event will be chaired by Dr Deborah Husbands and Professor Dibyesh Anand.

Please send any queries about this event to Grace Egbewole-Adereti, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programme Co-ordinator.

Unlocking Leadership: A Conversation with Dr Randhir Auluck