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Date: September 12, 1996
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Privatizing the Public Service to be Discussed by New Zealand Government Official

Princeton, N.J.--Charlotte Williams, deputy secretary for strategic responses to crime in New Zealand's Ministry of Justice, will speak on "Privatizing the Public Service: Reflections on the New Zealand Experience" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, Sept. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 6, Robertson Hall.

Williams, who earned a master of public affairs degree from the Woodrow Wilson School in 1974, joined the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a Foreign Service Officer in 1967 and in that capacity negotiated with the United States on security issues and with the European Union on trade issues. In 1978, she became first secretary of the New Zealand Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, and in 1981 returned to New Zealand to become head of the Australia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She left the government in 1985 to work as an economist with the firm of Francis, Allison, Symes & Co, and then returned to the government to serve as an economist for the New Zealand Treasury, where she was initially posted to the Office of the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament. In 1991 she was appointed assistant commissioner of executive appointments and development at the New Zealand State Services Commission; she assumed her current position in 1993. She is currently visiting Europe, Canada, and the United States in order to sample expert opinions on the efficacy of privatizing much of New Zealand's criminal justice system.

Her talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School.

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