Jon Bell is a consultant on agri-food scientific and regulatory matters, risk assessment, management and communication and public sector development, mentoring, organisational efficiency and change management
Practice Areas
Primary Capabilities
Effective leader, team builder and communicator with extensive media experience. Widespread experience of dealing with agri-food matters from farm to retail. Extensive experience of strategic planning, delivery and project management. Track record of helping the private sector to deal successfully with the public sector. Extensive contacts across Whitehall.
Core offer
A successful Public Sector Chief Executive and non-executive Director with the following characteristics:
- Strategic, innovative thinker with strong analytical skills
- Reputation as a successful problem solver
- Excellent communicator with considerable media experience
- Strongly delivery focused
- Energetic and enthusiastic with a reputation for remaining calm under pressure
- Record of successful public sector organisational development and change management
- Wide experience of working with public sector organisations overseas
- Extensive understanding of the realities and needs of the commercial environment and the best way to obtain successful outcomes for companies when dealing with politicians and civil servants
Other Disciplines Offered
- Strategic planning
- Enhanced organisational delivery
- Risk assessment, management and communication
- Crisis management
- Public sector mentoring
- Project management
Primary Sector Experience
- Public sector policy development and delivery
- Organisational development
- Project management
- Interfacing with Whitehall departments and executive agencies
- Training and development
Areas of Distinctive Added Value
- Enhanced strategic and delivery planning
- Public-sector development and turnaround
- Crisis handling in the face of media hostility
- Building productive partnerships with stakeholders and others in challenging situations
- Improving operational efficiency
Qualifications and Professional Memberships
Employment Summary
- 2006- Consultant, Director of Jon Bell Associates Ltd.
- 2003-2006 Chief Executive, Food Standards Agency
- 2000-2003 Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Food Safety Policy, Food Standards Agency
- 1995-2000 Deputy Head Joint Food Safety and Standards Group, Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF)
- 1989-1995 Head of Food Science Divisions I and II, MAFF
- 1997-1999 Head of Pigs, Eggs and Poultry Branch, MAFF
- Ministers Office, MAFF
- 1983-1986 Head of Animal Breeding Branch, MAFF
- 1975-1983 Head of Food Packaging Branch, MAFF
- 1974-1975 Metal Box Company
- 1972-1974 Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
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