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TWO-PART HALF DAY ONLINE SEMINAR
Navigating Current Challenges in Regulatory Practice
With Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
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Conference Date
23rd & 30th November 2021, 9:00am - 12:30pm AEDT
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Day 1 - Tuesday 23rd November, 2021

Day 1: Implementing Problem-Centric Work
9:00am (AEDT)
Welcome remarks & virtual learning tips
9:10
The essential nature of problem-centric work & the motivations for doing it

• Why do a problem-based project?
• Problem-solving protocols: The stages of problem-solving
• Essential disciplines. Choosing an appropriate level of rigor and granularity

10:00
Short break
10:15
Managerial infrastructure to support problemcentric work: Essential elements

• Is it really a problem-solving project? Different types of “problem”. Making “Go/No-go” decisions, and triage for other types of work
• Ethical challenges involved in portfolio management (including terminating projects with non-zero residual risk levels)
• A challenging question: “How many projects have you finished?”

11:15
Short break
11:30
How the exercise of discretion is affected. Public defence of choices

• How problem-centric work feeds into agency performance accounts. What it takes to demonstrate impact
• Implications of some “wicked categories” of harm. (Special challenges associated with tackling invisible problems, problems involving adversaries, and catastrophic risks)
• Common obstacles to implementation. How others have overcome them

12:20
Open Q&A
12:30pm (AEDT)
Day 1 closes

Day 2 - Tuesday 30th November, 2021

Day 2: Understanding Alternate Regulatory Structures
9:00am (AEDT)
Welcome remarks & virtual learning tips
9:05
How the choice of regulatory structures relates to delegating parts of the risk-management task to industry, or to third parties

• Historical and prevailing motivations for moving away from prescriptive regulation
• Strengths and weaknesses of the various models. On what basis to prefer one to another

10:00
Short break
10:15
Examining participants’ experience. Which models do you currently operate? What pressures for change do you face? What worries you?

• Implications of different structures on performance monitoring and evaluation
• How success will be described. And when failures occur under each model, who will have failed, and how?

11:15
Short break
11:30
Controlling catastrophic risks. Which models should we trust in the governance of catastrophic risks, and why?
  • Why it matters whether self-regulatory approaches (such as SMS) are seen as a replacement for prescriptive regulation, or a supplement?
12:20
Open Q&A
12:30pm (AEDT)
Day 2 closes
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Key Speakers

Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
Professor of the Practice of Public Management John F Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Professor Malcolm K Sparrow
Professor of the Practice of Public Management John F Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University

Malcolm K Sparrow is a leading international expert in regulatory and enforcement strategy, security and risk control. Malcolm is the Professor of the Practice of Public Management at Harvard’s John F Kennedy School of Government and he is Faculty Chair of the school’s executive program “Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.”

Professor Sparrow served 10 years with the British Police Service, rising to the rank of Detective Chief Inspector. He has conducted internal affairs investigations, commanded a tactical firearms unit, and has extensive experience with criminal investigation. His research interests include regulatory and enforcement strategy, fraud control, corruption control, and operational risk management.

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