About

Gwyn Bevan is emeritus professor of policy analysis at the London School of Economics. He works on why public services fail and how they can be made to work better.

He is a former head of LSE’s Department of Management, and teaches in its School of Public Policy with Simon Bastow. From 2001 to 2004 he was director of the Office for Healthcare Performance at the Commission for Health Improvement, which was responsible for inspections of quality of care in the NHS in England and Wales.

He has served on advisory committees to the Inspectorate of Police and Fire Services in England and Wales, and the Education Commission of the Rockefeller Foundation on research in developing countries; and to governments in England on allocating resources for healthcare and public health, the reform of publicly financed legal services, and funding research into overseas aid.

He is an affiliate professor in the Istituto di Management of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, and co-chair and co-founder, with David Goodman of Dartmouth College, of the Wennberg International Collaborative, a community of scholars and policymakers that supports emerging investigators studying the causes and consequences of unwarranted variation in health care.

He is married with two sons and lives in Oxfordshire, UK.

His email is r.g.bevan@lse.ac.uk.