Gareth Daniel Email & Phone Number

London, Uk

Gareth Daniel has worked for more than thirty five years in urban local government in the UK and served for 14 years (1998-2012) as Chief Executive of Brent Council. He was active in London regional and sub-regional affairs and was a founding chief executive of the West London Alliance (WLA) grouping of six West London councils. He represented London borough chief executives in the planning of the London 2012 Games and was also the driving force behind the construction of Brent Council's new £100 million award-winning Civic Centre in Wembley. He has managed public sector programmes and projects of many kinds and has been heavily involved in setting up and leading a wide variety of cross-border and multi-agency partnerships. He now works as a freelance consultant on public policy and governance issues and undertakes change management and partnership development projects in the public and not-for-profit sectors. Recent projects include a major review of a £10 million regional grant giving programme and an independent governance review of a waste disposal authority. Also undertakes executive mentoring with aspirant senior managers in the public and not-for-profit sectors and is a regular speaker at training events and awaydays.

As Brent Council's longest serving Chief Executive, worked closely with successive political leaderships to improve council services, to promote regeneration and inward investment and to enhance the authority's public and professional reputation. Council recorded its highest ever public satisfaction score and was rated 'good with excellent prospects' by the Audit Commission. Council obtained Investors in People Silver Award and was widely seen as an exemplar of best practice in terms of diversity and equal opportunities. Major regeneration projects advanced including the new national stadium at Wembley, estate based renewal programmes across the borough and major improvements to the local public transport infrastructure. As statutory chief officer and head of paid service, took a particularly strong line on probity and governance issues and secured a massive turnround in complaints performance. Active in multi-agency partnerships and established one of the first local crime prevention partnerships long before this became a legal requirement. Lead chief executive for the West London Alliance (WLA) on adult social care, property strategy and chaired the West London 2012 Partnership for seven years up to the actual Games. A strong advocate of improvement and efficiency, created a multi-faceted change programme with more than 30 separate projects which have delivered more than £60 million savings over a three year period.

Ba Honours (Oxon), Philosophy, Politics And Economics (Ppe)

Activities and Societies: President, Oxford University Student Union (sabbatical post), 1974-75, Active member of Oxford University Labour.

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