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Freeing Bureaucrats to Succeed

UCL Uncovering Politics

CHAPTER

How Did You End Up in Academia?

Ellen O'Neill is an academic and author of a new book about mission driven bureaucrats. She says she started out working in policy circles before going on to work for two successive ministers of finance in liberia. After finishing her ph d, she applied for jobs but found herself doing things that were outside normal procedure at government agencies. This made her wonder: what precisely was wrong with normal procedure? And how did we end up with e world if my perceptions were right?

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