The New Policy Compass

Executive Education

Our executive education programmes are designed to help decision-makers make sense of complexity and act decisively. We work with senior officials, regulators, and organisational leaders through formats ranging from intensive one-to-one sessions to extended advisory engagements.

For example, we can support a group of senior civil servants in a ministry struggling with stalled digital reforms by running a short diagnostic programme focused on implementation bottlenecks, inter-agency coordination, and political constraints.

As another example, we, can work with regulators in a middle-income country facing rapid fintech expansion, combining executive workshops with tailored mentoring to help leaders rethink supervisory strategies under uncertainty.

Rather than delivering generic training, our programmes are built around participants’ real problems, institutional contexts, and strategic dilemmas. The goal is not only to transfer knowledge, but to strengthen judgement, improve problem framing, and support informed action in complex policy environments.

Advisory

Our advisory work focuses on designing solutions to concrete institutional, regulatory, organisational, and financial problems. We support clients at critical moments of decision-making, where standard models often fail to account for political and administrative realities.

For instance, we can advise a transport authority in Latin America on redesigning a public–private partnership framework after repeated contract renegotiations undermined public trust and fiscal sustainability.

As another example, we can work with a financial regulator in Asia to redesign oversight arrangements for digital payment platforms, balancing innovation, consumer protection, and cross-border risks.

Our advisory approach combines policy analysis, organisational diagnosis, and stakeholder mapping to ensure that proposed solutions are both technically robust and implementable. We pay particular attention to incentives, governance structures, and coordination mechanisms, helping clients move from abstract reform ideas to operational designs that work within real-world constraints.

Training of Civil Servants

We design and deliver training programmes specifically tailored to civil servants, public managers, and regulators operating in complex governance environments. Our training goes beyond technical instruction to address implementation challenges, institutional dynamics, and political economy constraints.

For example, we can deliver a multi-session programme for local government officials in Southern Europe focused on public finance reform, helping participants understand why performance budgeting tools often fail and how to adapt them to organisational realities.

As another example, we can trained regulatory staff in an African country on managing infrastructure concessions, using simulations and case-based learning to explore risk allocation, contract management, and accountability.

Our training programmes are interactive, context-sensitive, and grounded in real policy dilemmas. The aim is to build durable capabilities, not just short-term compliance with reform templates or international best practices.

Analysis

We produce commissioned analytical reports that combine empirical evidence, comparative insight, and theoretical grounding to inform strategic decision-making. Our analysis is designed to clarify complex issues, assess trade-offs, and support policy learning.

For instance, we can produce a report on strategic autonomy and supply chain resilience for a European policy body, analysing how industrial policy, trade rules, and security concerns interact across different sectors.

As another instance, we can examine sanctions and trade spillovers for an international organisation, drawing on cases from Russia, China, and emerging economies to assess unintended economic and governance effects.

Our reports are not generic literature reviews: they are tailored to client needs, grounded in data, and framed to support concrete decisions. We aim to bridge the gap between academic research and practical policy debate.

Our Solutions

Executive Education

Advisory

Training of Civil Servants

Analysis

The New Policy Compass