Management

SEI’s global management structure consists of the Executive Team, Centre Directors, the Global Management Committee and the Global Research Committee. Together they support the Executive Director and the Board.

Executive Team

The Executive Team (ET) is the principal management body for SEI’s headquarters. Chaired by the Executive Director, it provides overall direction and leadership on governance, strategy, and the work of SEI’s headquarters. ET also monitors and evaluates progress towards strategic objectives and key performance requirements defined in our long-term strategy and annual work plan.

Centre Directors

The Centre Directors are responsible for day-to-day management of SEI centres and offices.

Global Management Committee

The Global Management Committee (GMC) is the principal management body for the global SEI structure, including the seven research centres around the world. Chaired by the Executive Director, GMC develops, and oversees compliance with, overarching global SEI policies, and joint operational and management principles and procedures. GMC supports the Executive Director in developing, implementing, and monitoring SEI’s work and priority-setting to attain the global SEI strategy. GMC also supports and assists Centre Directors and other Directors with operational and strategic management issues as they arise.

The Global Management Committee consists of some members of the Executive Team and all Centre Directors.

Global Research Committee

The Global Research Committee (GRC) decides on the focus areas of our core funded research, creates space and opportunity for research innovation, and is responsible for internal quality processes for peer review and ethics.

The GRC ensures that we are focused in the right areas and that researchers across our centres have opportunities for synthesis, learning, exchange, and leadership.

Responsibilities include:

• ensuring accountable, effective use of core funded research investments
• collaborating across SEI centres to achieve our strategy goals
• representing SEI in external forums
• managing the SEI Science Forum and SEI Science Advisory Council, and
• developing and implementing research-linked SEI policies.

The Global Research Committee also guides other SEI-wide functions such as identifying new opportunities for our work.

Current members