Elaine Birch Ruffell
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| Born | February 1956 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • National School for Government • University of Manchester • King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Institute for Statecraft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Interests |  “National security” | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior fellow of the Institute for Statecraft with a focus on "National Security Leadership, Strategy and Architecture". "Led assessment & disruption of narcotic trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe"
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Elaine Birch Ruffell OBE has worked as a "senior fellow" of the Institute for Statecraft, focusing on "National Security Leadership, Strategy and Architecture."[3]
Career
Elaine Birch Ruffell had a "30-year career within the UK Government undertook major transformation projects in both the Cabinet Office (implementing the findings of the Butler Report) and the Foreign Office (developing a multi-level leadership & talent management framework). [4] In the civil service, she among other things "led assessment & disruption of narcotic trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe" and built "strategic assessment and foresight capabilities in Central and South America. "
After retiring from the civil service in 2011, she has been a Fellow at the Institute of Statecraft since 2011.[5]
She worked for the the TorchlightGroup Ltd 2014-2016 where she "worked with the senior leadership of several national security organisations to enable leadership development and organisational transformation."[5]
She worked for OCTO from 2011, a company which is "Europe's foremost authority on the leadership and management of crisis and emergency situations."[5]
NOESIS ADVISORY Ltd from 2016, creating "21st century architectures, strategies and governance"[5].
She has "Enhanced cross-boundary/cross-border collaboration on transnational threats with the public, private & third-sectors and pioneered a new strategic foresight capability to underpin the UK National Security Strategy".[4]
She "Works with governments across Europe, North and Latin America advising on Parliamentary oversight, organisational & leadership development, building strategic assessment capabilities and developing cutting edge 'collaborative platforms' that revolutionise how knowledge is gathered & shared globally".[4]
At the same time as being a senior civil servant, she was an Associate and for a time Board member of the Global Futures Forum (2006-2014), "a multinational community initiated in 2005 to make sense of emerging and future transnational and global security challenges."[5]
