In 2019, the Heywood Foundation launched its first fellowship in memory of the late cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, giving a senior civil servant the opportunity to explore issues relating to public service and policy outside of their day job. Jenny Bates, then a director general in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, became the fourth official to take on the Heywood Fellowship last September.
The aim of Bates’s fellowship, which is spent at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, is to “consider the changing global economic order and seek to develop a refreshed approach – or longer-term strategy – for the UK”.
Her project seeks to “diagnose, understand and take account of that shifting global context and the UK’s position and to develop an approach that can both respond to the needs and aspirations of the people of the UK…
