me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates who's a former director of communications at africa development bank goodee you as ever. let's start with this news in the financial times and many of the papers here in the uk, changes to the prime minister ‘s top team, including any right—hand mount, a surprise change for thejob of mount, a surprise change for the job of chancellor. surprise yes but in some ways no because in some ways this has been coming. the disagreement is when sajid javid who was the chancellor of the exchequer, the finance minister. there are had already been a clash about advisors from the prime minister's chief adviser who thought everything should be controlled by the prime minister ‘s office which is at 10 downing street. i think in some ways this was coming. whether this was going to be the moment, but i think it proved that sajid javid decided this was it, he wasn't going to accept powers being taken from the treasury into the prime minister ‘s orbit and so i think he decided that this was it. i think the quote he said was, i don't believe any self—respecting minister would ac

me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates who's a former director of communications at africa development bank good

one thing i wanted the bank to do was focus on good development outcome and that means country by country and region by region for example for the horn of africa. that focus is a very talented staff on thinking about how do we get a good outcome in nigeria. how do we get a good outcome in ethiopia and around the world, china, india and other places around the world. i think it's a good healthy focus for the bank and people have been energized by that. we are doing what we call a realignment or global footprint to put more resources near the client. so the bank has a huge number of offices around the world and we are putting more practice managers into regional offices rather than d.c. which allows us to connect well with clients and do the job well within that. it is putting the resources in the decision-making and a shorter process. those are all inside to make the bank function well. were in the process of recruiting a new chief economist and the economic role is very important in the bank, we also have two new very senior women in the bank lori will start -- she's in d.c. this week and i'm very happy she will start at the bank on march 1. a