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Graham White - Westminster City Council - Editorial panel member

Graham White, Director of HR, Westminster City Council

Graham is Director of HR at Westminster City Council, which employs about 4,900 staff. Prior to joining Westminster Council. Graham was Head of HR and Organisational Development for Surrey County Council, Graham there he was responsible for delivering the entire HR remit for the Council’s workforce of 33,000, including Strategic Human Capital Management, Career Succession Planning, Talent management and Pay & Workforce Planning.

Surrey County Council undertook a fundamental review of HR service delivery with major non added value and transactional activities either outsourced or operated within a Shared Service Centre approach. This reduced the HR team from almost 400 to just 40 and taken 9 million pounds out of the budget. Graham is openly anti the business partner model and regularly speaks on the benefits of being in a business not just partnering with it.

His breadth of experience and expertise in HR and Personnel Management covers both the public and private sectors with positions in a variety of commercial, public and financial institutions including manufacturing, service, banking, policing and both central and local government.

A fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors, Graham is a devoted family man who is personally committed to the values of flexible working as he maintains a full family life in his home in Northern Ireland and a busy professional career in the City of Westminster.