Victoria Ann Hasson, Senior Parliamentary Advisor at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, and Sir Hugh Bailey, who served under Tony Blair as a Government Minister responsible for poverty reduction in the UK, invite you to an interactive session on ‘Why Parliament Matters?’, to answer questions on this topic as well as on their work with the Federal Parliament of Malaysia. Victoria is also an alumni at Nottingham University, so feel free to ask questions on how her Nottingham experience has helped shape her career to date.
Details
Date: 16 October 2018, Tuesday
Time: 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: F4C07 Tuanku Zara Teaching Centre
University of Nottingham Malaysia
Jalan Broga 43500 Semenyih
Selangor Darul Ehsan
This event is open to Nottingham University staff and students only. Refreshments will be served.
About the speakers
Victoria Ann Hasson
Victoria provides technical expertise in the design and development of Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) programmes. Victoria heads WFD’s Political Economy Analysis process and leads an initiative to innovate the learning experiences WFD deliver in-country to make them more adaptive and impactful. Victoria conducts technical assessments, delivers learning experiences related to core areas of parliamentary strengthening, produces research papers and develops new products for WFD. She provides advisory support to the Africa, Latin America and Asia programme teams.
Victoria has ten years of parliamentary experience. Victoria holds a doctorate on parliamentary procedure and democracy from the University of Sheffield, and worked in the National Assembly of South Africa for four years before joining WFD.
Sir Hugh Bayley
Sir Hugh Bayley worked on parliamentary capacity building, international development, international relations, security, good governance, and gender equality during 23 years as an MP in the UK Parliament, and before then as a television programme producer, a trade union official, an elected local councillor and as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK-based Anti-Apartheid Movement.
He introduced legislation in the UK Parliament to improve welfare support for disabled people, to ban tobacco advertising, to require UK aid to be used for poverty reduction, and to outlaw transnational bribery. He served in Tony Blair's Government as a Minister (responsible for poverty reduction in the UK), chaired House of Commons Legislating Committees, held office as Deputy Speaker, and was a member of House of Commons Departmental Select Committees on health and international development.
He worked on international relations, development and security policy, and parliamentary capacity building - as Chair, respectively, of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK Branch, and as President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly - work for which he was knighted.