Russell Chan

Head of People

I joined OGP in 2019, and have stayed since then because I think it is the government’s best shot today at breaking the mould on trying new ways for government organisations to work better, so that we can be a better public service.

I joined on September 2, 2019 and I am currently the Head of People.

Three things I’ve done recently which I’m proud of are…

Revamped leadership meeting platforms to create a clearer cadence for organisation decision-making for an expanded team of senior leaders tackling the task of leading a rapidly expanded 180-pax organisation.
Pushed the Workplace, Finance, and People teams to get comfortable with rapid experimentation and design thinking so as to imagine and prototype new policies, processes, and tools within days and weeks as opposed to months and years.
Helped to secure OGP’s headcount and funding runway for a 200-pax organisation in the next 3 years