Our Major Project Delivery Insights team are experts on a wide range of government projects, from infrastructure to defence equipment.
Director
Lee-Anne Murray
Lee-Anne leads the Major Project Delivery Insights team. She has worked at the NAO for over 20 years, auditing a wide range of government projects and programmes, from defence to transport.
Lee-Anne directed the NAO’s work on learning lessons from major programmes, which drew together insights from programmes across government on the root causes of the issues they see most often.
Team members
Kristian Barrett
Kristian has delivered numerous value for money reports on projects across areas such as transport, environmental sustainability and defence. He has also developed insights work, such as our lessons learned from major programmes, and is a qualified chartered accountant (ACA).
George Mélançon-Talboys
George joined the NAO in 2022, having worked in the Civil Service for nearly six years with a focus on project and portfolio delivery and risk management.
George holds an MSc in International Management alongside the APM Project Management Qualification and practitioner qualifications in Management of Portfolios and Management of Risk.
Riaz Rahman
Riaz has examined numerous government projects at different lifecycle stages across various policy areas such as energy, economic growth, transport and welfare reform. He has co-authored a number of NAO insights reports on government project delivery including Delivering value from government investment in major projects and Resetting major programmes. Riaz holds the Association of Project Management’s Project Management Qualification (PMQ).
Our work
The Major Project Delivery Insights team has experience auditing government’s major programmes and projects. These are often large-scale and delivered by multiple stakeholders, producing risks that many commercial organisations would not take on.
For more on our work in these areas, see the following topics:
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