FYI,
CONFERENCE AT BIRKBECK, LONDON - 30-31 JANUARY 2003
LOCAL OPTIONS: NEW MODELS FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PROVISION OF UTILITY SERVICES
School of Management and Organizational Psychology
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX
Thursday 30 - Friday 31 January 2003
Room B.01 (Lecture Theatre), Clore Management Centre
Thursday
4:00 - 5:30
Session I: The Choice Between Public and Private
Ownership
Professor Tony Allan, School of Oriental and African
Studies: Public and Private Provision in the Water
Sector: Experience in the South
Dr Frederick Guy and Dr Sandeep Kapur, Birkbeck
College: Local Choice between Public and Private
Ownership of Utilities.
Dr Josi Tavera, Catholic University of Peru: The IMF,
Public Ownership and Regulatory Reform in Peru.
Friday
9:30-11:00
Session II: Decentralised Decision Making in
the Provision of Public Services
Professor Allyson Pollock, University College London:
Public Private Partnerships and Decentralized
Management in the Health Sector
Dr Simon Szreter, St Johns College, University of
Cambridge: A Central Role for Local Government? The
example of late Victorian Britain.
11:15- 12:15
Keynote: Bob Kiley, Transport for London,
'Financing Public Infrastructure'
12:30 to 1:30 Lunch - in Beveridge Hall, Senate House
1:45 - 3:15
Session III: Public and Mutual Models of
Local Utility Ownership
Dr Eugene Coyle, Eco Economics, Washington DC: Public,
Regulation and Local Public Ownership of Electric
Utilities in the USA
Kevin Jaquiss, Cobbetts Solicitors: A Proposal for
Regional Mutual Ownership of UK Water Utilities
Professor Ole Jess Olsen, Roskilde University: Consumer
Ownership in Liberalized
Electricity Markets: the Case of Denmark
3:15-3:45 Closing remarks
For more information contact Katie Wright, Research
Administrator, Clore Management Centre, Malet Street,
London, WC1E 7HX or e-mail [log in to unmask]
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