George Anthony Beattie (17 April 1944 – 31 March 2014) was a British

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, born in

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. He began a public service career as a

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in the 1960s and ended it in 2004 as a

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in the UK's

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(DFID). He helped promote the application of

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concepts to the UK public sector in the 1990s, both as head of the Natural Resources Institute, then part of the Overseas Development Administration, for ten years from 1986 until its transfer to the University of Greenwich in 1996, and subsequently as a member of the Efficiency and Effectiveness Unit in the

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. From 1997 to 2004, Beattie was

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and UK Permanent Representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies in

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. Among other roles in the governing bodies in Rome he was President of the Executive Board of the

World Food Programme The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольствен� ...

(

WFP The World Food Programme; it, Programma alimentare mondiale; es, Programa Mundial de Alimentos; ar, برنامج الأغذية العالمي, translit=barnamaj al'aghdhiat alealami; russian: Всемирная продовольствен� ...

), chair of the Audit Committee of the Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (

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) and Vice-Chair of the Finance Committee of the

Food and Agriculture Organization The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...

(FAO). He chaired the Governance Group established by WFPs Executive Board in 1999. He has trained as a coach at

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and implemented a coaching programme in WFP. He was also active in charity governance as a chair and trustee, and was a member of the Governance Forum of the National Council of Voluntary Organisations. Prior to his death he was undertaking a consultancy for the

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fund Council on resource mobilisation. He died in

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on 31 March 2014 after having had a fall in

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on 19 March 2014. He is the author of ''Experience of Commissioning Research and Development in "Science in Government - the Rise of the Intelligent Customer"'', ''Research Investment Strategies in Selected European Countries: Lessons Learned: the UK in "Investment Strategies for Agriculture and Natural Resources"'' (1988), and "The governance of priorities, financing and performance in the delivery of public goods by international and regional membership organisations" (2013).

References

*http://hec-executive.ch/iomba/www/?pid=293 *http://www.pacificplanreview.org/resources/uploads/embeds/files/AnthonyBeattie_GovernanceFINAL.pdf *https://web.archive.org/web/20140924043815/http://www.nri.org/news/2014/anthony-beattie {{DEFAULTSORT:Beattie, Anthony British civil servants World Food Programme people 1944 births 2014 deaths British officials of the United Nations