Kenneth Davey


Kenneth Jackson Davey OBE, Emeritus Professor, International Development Department, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham and former Senior Adviser to the Local Government and Public Service reform Initiative of the Open Society Foundation.
Kenneth Davey studied History at Oxford, graduating with an MA. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was recently awarded the OBE. He was also awarded the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.

Financial crisis

Kenneth Davey is currently leading the group of European experts examining the effects of the financial crisis at local level. This work is being carried out by the at the Council of Europe, in co-operation with the Open Society Foundation. The group's experts include Paul Bernd Spahn, Gabor Peteri

Local government specialist

In his years as a specialist in local government, notably local finance, he has worked for
HM Overseas Civil Service, the World Bank, DfID, UNCHS, Council of Europe and EU.
His work in recent years has focused particularly on assistance to local government reform in Central and Eastern Europe, and he was director of research into the institutional framework of urban management.
Between 1972-2008, he carried out consultancies on intergovernmental fiscal relations and public
administration reform for the Council of Europe, DfID, EU, UNCHS, UNDP, World Bank and other agencies in Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzogovina, Brazil, China, Croatia, Czech Republic,Georgia, Hungary India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, FYROMacedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Turkey and Uganda.

University of Birmingham (UK)

From 1969–2000, he taught at the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham. His posts included Professor of Development Administration, Director, Institute of Local Government Studies and Head of School.

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