Andrew Archer
Course Trainer
Andrew is an International Learning Consultant, with extensive experience of working in the UK Civil Service and with governments, other public sector bodies and companies around the world.
As a consultant, Andrew has spent the last seven years working with government and non-government organisations in the UK and overseas, delivering open and bespoke development programmes and consultancy advice. In the UK Andrew has worked with several UK government departments on projects including a change programme to align strategy, policies, structure and job roles and year-long talent development programmes.
Overseas Andrew has worked on programmes for national and subnational government organisations in South Africa, Angola, Sierra Leone, Mauritius, Malaysia and Egypt. The latter involved consultancy support to help Egypt achieve better policy alignment across ministries representing different parts of the energy sector and the development of a coherent national energy policy. Andrew has also been a guest lecturer on policy development at the Baltic Defence College in Estonia.
Andrew’s 30 year career started with work on UK regional policy and he was part of a team that devised and rolled out a new grant support scheme, inclusive of the associated legislation. He then moved to a role in international trade, with responsibility for trade promotion and policy advice relating to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the Yemen. Andrew then moved into the private sector to work for The Engineering Council, the UK body that regulates the engineering profession, to help them develop policies and initiatives to support and promote the development of the engineering profession in the UK. Andrew then returned to the Civil Service to work in an internal consultancy role, as a senior team leader then Deputy Director. In this role he worked on projects across Whitehall supporting organisational development, strategic change programmes and talent development. He was also involved in running strategic management and leadership programmes at all levels up to and including CMI Level 7. During this time Andrew also worked, over a period of several years, on a ‘Twinning Programme’ to help the Romanian government build capacity and policies to ready the country for accession to the European Union.
Andrew’s final Civil Service role, before leaving to work in the private sector, saw him working on another capacity building project, this time with the IT and digital profession in both the Ministry of Justice and more widely across Whitehall.
Andrew’s areas of expertise, in addition to policy, include strategy, organisational change, public administration, leadership decision making and talent development. Andrew is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a Member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Member of the Chartered Management Institute, on behalf of which he acts as a mentor.
