Maria Barrados Editor

Maria Barrados is currently Executive-in-Residence at the Sprott School of Business, Carleton University. Her Canadian government career included working as a government program evaluator, as a performance auditor and audit executive at the Office of the Auditor General and as President of the Public Service Commission that included responsibility for internal audit and program evaluation.

Jeremy Lonsdale is Director of Defence value for money audit at the UK's National Audit Office. He has held a number of senior posts at the NAO. Between 2014 and 2016 he was a Senior Research Leader at RAND Europe in Cambridge. His publications include 'Performance auditing: Contributing to accountability in Democratic Government' (2011) and 'Making Accountability Work: Dilemmas for Evaluation and for Audit' (2007).