Please note that this event has had to be postponed - apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Due to severe floods in Amman, the Prime Minister of Jordan, His Excellency Dr Omar Al-Razzaz, needs to return to Jordan immediately, so the event unfortunately cannot go ahead as planned. We will be working with the Prime Minister to reschedule for a future date.

When the event is rescheduled we will announce it on the events page on this website and on the events mailing list.

The Jordanian Prime Minister, His Excellency Dr Omar Al-Razzaz, will be in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities for public sector reform in Jordan.

The talk will be livestreamed and recorded on the Blavatnik School of Government YouTube channel.

Please note: for security reasons, participants must bring photographic ID with them and no bags are allowed. Seats must be taken by 14.20.

Speaker biography

His Excellency Dr Omar Al-Razzaz is the 42nd Prime Minister of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. He was appointed by the King as Prime Minister on 14 June 2018 after serving as Minister of Education for a year and a half. HE Dr Al-Razzaz holds a PhD in Planning, with a minor in Economics, from Harvard University. He holds a master's degree in City Planning from MIT and a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the American University of Beirut. He completed his post-doctorate at Harvard Law School.

Between 2002 and 2006, HE Dr Al-Razzaz served as the Country Manager of the World Bank in Lebanon's country office, after which he accepted a public sector leadership position in Jordan as the Director General of the Social Security Corporation until 2010. In 2011, he led national efforts to develop Jordan's National Employment Strategy 2020.