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Dr Ita O’Donovan – Non Executive Director

Ita is a social psychologist by background and a former local authority chief executive in unitary authorities in London and the Midlands. Most recently she was a full-time interim strategic director and corporate director with a city council.

Ita also has experience working with chief executives and leaders in Northern Ireland in 2014/2015 during the establishment of 11 new councils. Between 2011-2013 she was appointed as senior expert for the European Cooperation for Stronger Municipalities in Kosovo advising the Ministry of Local Government Administration, working with mayors and directors of eight municipalities in the Central Region.

Ita started her career as an academic at the School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham in 1985. There she undertook extensive consultancy in developing countries seeking to implement public sector reform projects at national, regional and local levels of government. She returned to this work from 2010-2019, working in China, Bangladesh and emerging economies.