Silos: Why they form and how to smash them

Speakers

• Jaime Matute

  International Consultant - External Relations, Partnerships and Resources Mobilization Department, Pan American Health Organization

  Colombia

• Michael Crawford Urban

  Manager, Strategic Standards Development, CSA Group

  Canada

• Kitty Wooley

  Retired Civil Servant

  United States

• Jaime Matute, international consultant on External Relations at the Pan American Health Organization. Previously, Jaime was Senior Advisor of the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare, leading a National Plan to Prevent Violence against Children. He has worked for more than 20 years in the social protection, childhood and youth, and global health areas in the Americas and Africa, performing roles such as executive director, international affairs director, senior advisor, and international expert. He has served at governmental, private, and international organizations, leading partnerships development, resource mobilization, diplomacy and advocacy, and strategies and programs' design and implementation, with a common purpose of generating social impact.

• Michael Crawford Urban, Manager, Strategic Standards Development, at CSA Group where he is helping to identify new and emerging areas that could benefit from the development of standards-based solutions. Previously, Michael was Director, Research and Special Projects (Future Skills) at Toronto Metropolitan University's Diversity Institute (part of the Government of Canada's Future Skills Centre consortium) and Practice Lead for Government Transformation at the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre. He has also worked as a Returning Officer for Elections Canada and with Global Affairs Canada, most recently as a Cadieux-Léger Fellow. Michael is often asked to speak about his research on the future of work and on disruptive technologies and regulatory issues, and his research and analysis of these and other subjects have appeared in a variety of academic and popular publications. Michael holds degrees from Balliol College at the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and Queen’s University.

• Kitty Wooley, a retired civil servant, had a second career in U.S federal government after first serving as a college financial aid director. She began as part of a San Francisco team that provided oversight of financial aid administration at universities in four states to ensure that billions of dollars were capably managed to help students pay for college as intended. Later positions in Washington, D.C. involved data analysis and risk management, project management, decision support, and translation between IT staff and program officers. Special projects included biweekly communication with 450 early adopters of a radically new national financial aid processing system and leadership of three interagency flash mentoring events for young budget staff in the executive branch. The Senior Fellows and Friends network she founded after work in 2003 continues to foster an atmosphere of trust that adds value through conversation and relationship among public service leaders at every level.