Harbord and Shute join the Room151 blog team
0Room 151 has expanded its blogging team with the addition of Richard Harbord and Jackie Shute.
Richard Harbord is chief executive of Boston Borough Council and will be blogging on strategic finance. He has worked in local government for 39 years in local government across eight local authorities in London and the South East. Richard became chief executive and director of finance at the London Borough of Richmond in 1988 and became MD of London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in 1999. He has also worked in the private sector, having run his own consultancy business for several years.
Jackie Shute, whose contributions will focus on risk and treasury, began working in the area in 1996 at Southampton City Council. She was subsequenty a treasury advisor, advising a range of local government bodies, as well as Housing Associations and Building Societies. Jackie then returned to local government, working with the London Borough of Newham as corporate finance manager before joining Cornwall County Council in 2008 prior to it achieving unitary status. As assistant head of finance she was responsible for both treasury management and the pension fund. She left Cornwall Council in 2011 and co-founded Public Sector Live to specialise in public sector risk analysis.
Shute and Harbord join Room 151’s expanding team of bloggers which comprises: James Bevan, chief investment officer of CCLA; David Green, soon to be client director for Arlingclose; Councillor John Clancey of Birmingham City Council; David Crum, founding director of 330 Consulting; and Mark Finnegan, Rugby Borough Council’s principal accountant. Room 151 also recently signed up Agent 151, a senior local authority finance director.
