Vera Morris
Vera Morris holds several public appointments; as Non-Executive Director and Board Member of a NHS Trust, Member of the Residential Tribunal Service in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, consultant and registered inspector for schools and colleges in the DfES and Ofsted.
She has substantive experience of the implementation of government public policy in the key sectors of health, education and housing. As a member of the statutory Tribunal services in mental health and housing she regularly encounters issues of human rights and social justice. With long standing interests in homelessness she serves as a Board Member on UK based charities concerned with the homeless, notably Thames Reach Bondway. She was also founder member of Action for Victims of Medical Accident.
In recent years she has represented British interests on an international expert group of a World Bank programme for educational development in S.E. Africa, acted as consultant to the British Council for the World Bank Educational Reform programme in Eastern Europe, and has chaired an ECE enquiry into womens' education, training and employment.
She has held a number of grants in France, Sweden and Switzerland.
Earlier in her career she joined the international civil service working as an economist with the OECD Social Affairs Directorate then moving to UNESCO and the World Bank working on education and economic development, before returning to the home civil service as a senior government economist.
Much of her earlier published research has been in the economics of education, training and the labour market, contributing some of the seminal work in this field. She subsequently worked on the re-distributional impact of government expenditures and poverty reduction.
Since moving into academe she has continued to focus her interests on public policy, good governance, resourcing the public services, outcomes of performance and target management, improvements in service delivery and access for those in greatest need: her teaching fields are in the economics of public policy. Her interests remain international. She is Honorary Visiting Professor in public policy at London Metropolitan University.
Contact Information
Tel: 020 7133 5103
E-mail: v.morris@londonmet.ac.uk
