Mark Grimshaw

Mark Grimshaw is Chief Executive of the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).

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Mark Grimshaw, 27 January 2015 - Making organisations work well

Once considered the black sheep of the Defra family, the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) has advanced from disparate, struggling silos to a unified example of best practice in Government. Chief executive Mark Grimshaw outlines the approach behind this four-year transformation.

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