Adam Wilkinson
Adam
became interested in public sector entrepreneurship and particularly public procurement and its impact 20 years ago while developing an Internet based social enterprise in Herefordshire (KC3) that is still used as an example of using IT as a catalyst to deliver regeneration. He was responsible for initiating the use of an objective approach to public sector procurement and its economic impact in the UK through his work in Northumberland County Council in partnership with the New Economics Foundation. This work arose directly from his expertise in the development of social enterprise and more generally knowledge of social impact of public sector activity on communities.
Later he designed and was retained by NECE (North East Centre of Excellence) to provide key elements of the regional economic outcome programme. This work was taken further by an additional innovation of combining LM3 and input output models to inform wider impacts and to develop the concept of Market Intelligence for smarter procurement. Simultaneously he established LM3online (www.lm3online.org) to provide access and use for the third sector to the model and to build capacity in both public and private sectors public sector procurement. This is free of charge for the not for profit sector.
Current projects include working with Emda and Defra to deliver a flagship project on the implementation of sustainable procurement through supply chains, developing and embedding key performance indicators for impact across public, private and not for profit sectors. With the development of a new tool to measure and report on the organisational sustainability against key objectives.
In addition to a joint honours degree in Geography and Psychology he also studied Economics at St. Andrews University. He has studied Excellence in Governance at Harvard Business School and Public Sector management at Northumbria University. He has recently stepped down as Chair of OneWorld.net uk a global charity using internet technologies for civil rights and as an international trustee of the Foundation. Adam is a member of the National Sustainable Procurement Group and is registered on Defra’s Sustainable Consumption and Production Expert Consultancy Panel
