Dario @ OECD
The Italian Experiences of the SNA Programme on the Role of the Senior Civil Service in Building a Culture of Integrity Presentation to the OECD Working Party of Senior Public Integrity Officials (SPIO) In the framework of the OECD Integrity Week Paris, April 18 th 2016 by Dario Quintavalle, SNA Alumni Good afternoon, and thank you very much for the invite to this working party. My name is Dario Quintavalle, I am a member of the Italian Senior Executive Service and I’m here on behalf of the Italian National School of Government (SNA) Alumni Association. If I were a novelist, and I should write a book about the Italian Civil Service, I would title it after Jane Austen as: “ Little Pride, and Lot of Prejudice ”, as it seems “ a truth universally acknowledged ”, that civil servants are too many, too well paid, and deliver too little, and too bad. It is, indeed, not the best of the moments to be a public servant in my country: we are deep into a c