LLG's latest Monitoring Officer & Governance National Lead meeting will feature guest speaker Mark Heath from our corporate partners VWV.
In this session Mark will be discussing one week from Elections: What should we be doing & looking at the potential pitfalls to avoid?
We look forward to you joining us on the day.
Mark Heath is a Consultant and specialises in providing advice to clients in the Public sector.
Mark has over 30 years of service within the public sector. He was until December 2016 working at Southampton City Council where he was Solicitor to the Council (and Monitoring Officer) for 20 years. Subsequent to that he held the positions of Director of Place and subsequently Chief Operating Officer at Southampton.
Mark however remains as the Returning Officer for elections at Southampton, a post he has held since 1994. [He was the South East Regional Returning Officer for the 2009 and 2014 European Parliamentary Elections, the Regional Counting Officer for the South East Region for the AV Referendum in 2011 and the European Referendum in 2016, and the Police Area Returning Officer for Hampshire for the Police and Crime Commissioner Elections in 2012 and 2016]. As one of the leading figures in the electoral field, he serves on several groups convened by the Government and the Electoral Commission on electoral law, policy and practice