The Government Office for the West Midlands is one of nine Government
Offices in the English regions delivering policies and programmes at
regional and local level on behalf of 12 Government Departments.
Within the West Midlands Trudi currently chairs the Regional Economic
Inclusion Panel, the Programme Monitoring Committee (for European
programmes), the Regional Resilience Forum, the West Midlands Regional
Climate Change Panel and West Midlands Regional Board. Trudi leads for the
Government Office network on Resilience, the work of the Department for
Culture, Media and Sport and Regional Governance. Trudi also leads
the Civil Service West Midlands Project and the roll out of the Civil
Service in the English Region’s Programme across England. Trudi
is the principal advisor to Ian Austin MP, Regional Minister for the West
Midlands. She is a member of the Council of Warwick University.
Trudi has experience of working across all sectors – public, private
and voluntary. She has worked as a lawyer in both the public and
private sectors. Her previous roles have included Chief Executive of
Bridgnorth District Council and Chief Executive of West Midlands Regional
Assembly and West Midlands Local Government Association.
