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Prior to joining Accenture, Dr. Parston was the chairman of the Office for Public Management, a nonprofit organizational development company that he co-founded in 1988 and led as chief executive until 2003. Dr. Parston has consulted widely with top managers, focusing on governance, strategy and change and has worked as a manager in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Until taking up his current post, he also was a director of the Priory Group, responsible for public service partnerships.
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Dr. Parston has served on HM Treasury's Public Sector Productivity Panel since 2000, and co-authored the Panel's reports on motivation and performance and on accountability. Among other appointments, he was a member of the Independent Commission on Good Governance in Public Services, the Association of Chief Executive of Voluntary Organisation's commission on the role of the voluntary sector in public services and the Cabinet Office's advisory group on Strengthening Leadership in the Public Sector.
Dr. Parston received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his PhD at the University of London. He has been on the faculty of New York University and the King's Fund College in London and a visiting lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He lives in London and Tucson.