Alan Alexander

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Professor Alan Alexander, Chair of Scottish Water (since April 2002), and Chairman of West of Scotland Water (1999-2002) retired from the Chair of Local and Public Management at the Strathclyde Business School, University of Strathclyde in July 2000. He is now Emeritus Professor.

As Chairman, Professor Alexander has responsibility for the strategic leadership of Scottish Water, for ensuring the creation of a new and efficient water utility and for demonstrating the effectiveness of a new public sector model for the water industry in Scotland. The operating environment is one in which the Water Industry Commissioner's recommendation (accepted by Scottish Ministers) of very challenging targets for the reduction of operating costs and the achievement of major efficiencies in Scottish Water's huge capital programme will have to be met if the public sector model is to be successful..

Professor Alexander is author of Local Government in Britain Since Reorganisation (1982), The Politics of Local Government in the United Kingdom (1982) Borough Government and Politics: Reading 1835-1985 (1985), Managing the Fragmented Authority (written jointly with Kevin Orr, 1994), of a Fabian Pamphlet, Managing Local Socialism (1986) and of many articles in academic journals.

He has been a leading member of two local authorities and he served on the Board of the Housing Corporation from 1977 to 1980. In 1992 he was the sole academic member of The Scottish Office Working Party on the Internal Management of Local Authorities.

In 1998-1999 he was a member of the Commission on Local Government and the Scottish Parliament (The McIntosh Commission).

He has been a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland since October 2002 and a member of the Economic and Social Research Council since 2003.

In 2003, Professor Alexander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

For additional information relating to the AIM Executive Steering Committee, please contact Jacqueline Brown at – jacqueline.brown@cranfield.ac.uk


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