Mr John Wilkes
Public: Rest of London
Elected November 2006. Term ends October 2009

Experience

• 29 years in the civil service at the Department of Health, leading, managing and developing people in a way that brings out the best in them
• 1992 - 2001 worked for the Permanent Secretary and management team on a variety of corporate projects
• Now coaches for senior managers in the public sector, including Health Social Care Service delivers and related Agencies and Commissions, also providing consultancy for them and their teams
• Company Secretary and Trustee of the Professional Body: the Association for Management Education and Development
• Co-ordinates a programme of monthly meetings and other programmes for Alumni from the Tavistock Masters Programme Consultation to Organisations: this is financially independent of the Tavistock Centre

Qualifications

• Certification of Education (Teaching Qualification) London University 1970
• BA Humanities Open University 1976
• MA Applying psychoanalytic and systemic approaches to consulting to organisations, Tavistock Centre, 1999.
• Memberships and Associations -Tavistock Society of Psychotherapists and Allied Professions; OPUS (Organisation for Promoting an Understanding of Society; Association for Management Education and Development

 Experience of mental illness –personal statement

“I have suffered all my adult life from clinical depression and have only ever been offered medication by the NHS.  All my consultations with psychiatrists I have paid for myself, as I have for my years of psychotherapy.  This, I understand, is a common experience for many people with clinical depression; when neither the life of the patient or public is threatened nor is there psychotic episode requiring hospital containment.   I am now sure that being dyslexic and homosexual where contributing factors in my childhood and adolescence (when homosexual acts between men were illegal then) to my depression”.