CIPFA SE Spring Conference 2026

CIPFA South East Spring Conference 2026 | CIPFA

Navigating Change: Public Finance Leadership in an Uncertain World. This event brings a range of experts to talk us through the current financial and economic landscape of the public sector and how public servants need to adapt.

This event will include sessions from:

• Professor Tony Travers CBE, London School of Economics, on the economic and political horizon
• Professor Catherine Needham, University of Birmingham on defining the effective modern public servant
• Norse Group on post LGR delivery approaches
• Grant Thornton
• Other relevant experts covering topical issues for UK public finances

The day will include presentation and panel sessions to allow for audience questions and engagement. There will be plenty of opportunities to connect and network with other regional colleagues during coffee and lunch breaks as well as a drinks reception at the end of the day.

• Norse Group
• Grant Thornton

Tony is Director of British Government at LSE and Co-director of LSE London and has key research interests in public finance, local, regional and London government.
Recently an adviser to the House of Commons Education Select Committee and the Communities and Local Government Select Committee, he is a research board member of the Centre for Cities and of the New Local Government Network.
Tony is an honorary member of CIPFA and from 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the Audit Commission. He is the author of a number of books including Failure in British Government: The Politics of the Poll Tax (with David Butler and Andrew Adonis), Paying for Health, Education and Housing: How does the Centre Pull the Purse Strings (with Howard Glennerster and John Hills) and The Politics of London: Governing the Ungovernable City. He also broadcasts and writes for the national media.

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