Ray Shostak, CBE, is an internationally respected expert in education and government performance and was Head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit, Director General Performance Management and member of the Board of Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2007–2011.

Previously, Ray served as Director of Public Services at HM Treasury and has had responsibility for a wide variety of public service and spending control issues, including reforms to the framework of Public Service Agreements, developing a new performance framework for local government and a range of internal and cross-governmental projects (including policy development and reviews of childcare, education, youth, housing and planning reform, the Olympics, and public service inspection).

Prior to joining the Treasury, he was Director of Children, Schools and Families at Hertfordshire County Council, where he set up the first fully integrated Children’s Service in local government. He has also worked as Head of Pupil Performance in the Department of Education and Skills; and held a number of senior roles in local government. Ray has degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Southern California.

Recently Ray has focused particularly on supporting governments in developing systems for improving public services, performance and performance based budgeting. His work has involved work on behalf of the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, GIZ, the IMF and directly with individual countries.

Ray was awarded a CBE for services to education by HM Queen in 2005.