From Insight To Action: A Practitioner’s Workshop On Financial Resilience

Jeffrey Matsu is Chief Economist at CIPFA and a Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. With extensive experience in connecting policy with practice through evidence-based research, he works with partner governments, accountancy bodies and the public sector around the world to advance public finance and support better public services.

Previously, Jeff was responsible for market analysis and thought leadership at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and co-led the economy theme at the UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE). He was also a senior economist at Morgan Stanley and served on the research staff at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC. He holds degrees in economics from the University of Washington and Johns Hopkins University.

André Lino is a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Essex Business School. Lino completed his PhD (accounting) in 2019 at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), including a period as PhD visiting research student at INLOGOV (University of Birmingham) - both funded by the Brazilian Coordination of Superior Level Staff Improvement (CAPES). Prior to joining Essex Business School, from 2019 to 2021, Lino held a position as lecturer in accounting at the Federal University of Pará (Brazil). André Lino main areas of interest are Public Sector Audit, Public Sector Organizations (Financial) Resilience, Co-production of public services and outcomes and Public Sector Reforms. He focus on qualitative methodologies and is theoretically aligned to recent developments of the field of organizational institutionalism. His scholarly work appears in refereed journals such as Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Financial Accountability & Management Journal and Public Money and Management. Lino is also Associate Editor for Public Administration of the Brazilian Business Review (BBR) journal.

Bernard is a Lecturer in the Accounting and Finance Department, and a member of the Accountability and Governance Research Group in the Centre for Economics, Policy and Public Management at Nottingham Business School. Bernard was awarded a Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship in 2018, and has recently completed his PhD in Public Sector Accountability and Financial Management. His PhD was entitled “Financial Resilience in the face of Austerity: An Empirical Study of Local Authorities in England”.

Peter Murphy is the Director of the Public Policy and Management Research Group within the Centre for Economics, Policy and Public Management at Nottingham Business School, and Professor of Public Policy and Management. He teaches at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive levels, and supervises research dissertations for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. His research focuses on public policy, and in particular the performance management, governance, scrutiny, public assurance, and value-for-money arrangements of locally delivered public services. Peter is the Vice Chair (Research) of the Public Administration Committee of the Joint Universities Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Public Scrutiny and a member of the Criteria Panel for the Business and Management (C17) unit of REF2021.