Acknowledgements

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association express its heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the following experts who worked tirelessly to develop and contribute content to the CPA Parliamentary Academy online courses. Namely:

Ms Philippa Helme CB (United Kingdom), Rt Hon. Tom Brake (United Kingdom), Adv Saidi Yakubu (Tanzania), Mr David Christopherson (Canada), Mr Ravindra Garimella (India), Hon. Patricia Gordon-Pamplin (Bermuda), Ms Natalie Cooke (Australia), Mr Justin Baker (Australia), and Dr Andrea Cullen FGIA FCG (Australia).

We also offer our thanks and appreciation to the many busy Speakers, Parliamentarians, Clerks and officials who took the time from their busy parliamentary work to offer their experiences and expertise to record video lessons. We thank them and the broadcasting and recording teams in their parliaments who recorded and edited material. In order of appearance (positions held at the time of production):

1. Hon. Jonathan O’Dea MP, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, New South Wales, Australia
2. Hon. Dennis Lister JP MP, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda
3. Hon. Sharie De Castro MHA, Junior Minister for Tourism, British Virgin Islands
4. Mr Stephen Twigg, CPA Secretary-General
5. Hon. Kate Doust MLC, President of the Legislative Council, Western Australia, Australia 
6. Hon Beverley Schäfer MPP, Deputy Speaker, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
7. Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury MP, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, Bangladesh
8. Hon. Nathan Cooper MLA, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada
9. Hon. Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings MP, Member of Parliament, Ghana
10. Hon. Akierra Missick MP, Leader of Government Business and Minister of Infrastructure, Housing Planning and Development, Turks and Caicos Islands
11. Hon. Louisa Wall MP, Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, New Zealand
12. Hon. Darren Jones MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom
13. Hon. Lillian Greenwood MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom
14. Hon. Nontembeko Nothemba Boyce MPL, Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, South Africa
15. Hon. Mohamed Nasheed MP, Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Maldives
16. Hon. Yasmin Ratansi MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Canada
17. Hon. Lord Fakafuna, Speaker of the Parliament of Tonga, Tonga
18. Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, Senate of Canada
19. Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, UK Parliament
20. Hon. James Avedzi MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Ghana
21. Hon. Valens Muhakwa MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Rwanda 
22. Hon. Tracey Taegar-Panton MP, Chair, Joint Public Accounts Committee, Belize
23. Hon. Ruth Forrest MLC, Chair of Committees, Tasmanian Legislative Council
24. Hon. Mohamed Nashiz MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, The People’s Majlis, Maldives
25. Hon. Richard Bacon MP, Member, UK House of Commons
26. Hon. Tom Kmiec MP, Former Chair, Standing Committee on Public Accounts, House of Commons, Canada 
27. Ms Tara Kerpens-Lee, Engagement Officer, UK Parliament
28. Ms Zena Merrin-Chin, Clerk of Parliament, Cayman Islands
29. Mr Siow Peng Han, Deputy Clerk, Parliament of Singapore
30. Mr Vernon Titus, Director of Institutional Enablement, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
31. Mr Tom Duncan, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
32. Ms Awongiwe Mtimkulu, Researcher, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
33. Mr Mark Egan, Greffier of the States Assembly, Jersey
34. Mr Themba Keswa, Manager of Public Education and Outreach Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
35. Mr David Wilson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, New Zealand
36. Mr Blair Armitage, Clerk Assistant, Senate of Canada, Canada
37. Mr Jeffrey LeBlanc, Principal Clerk, House of Commons, Canada
38. Ms Libby Kurien, Head of the Centre of Excellence of Procedural Practice, House of Commons, UK Parliament
39. Ms Jo Corkish, Third Clerk, Tynwald, Parliament of the Isle of Man
40. Shri Chitra Velmurugan, Secretary, Delhi Legislative Assembly, India
41. Dr Jonathan King, Deputy Clerk, Tynwald, Parliament of Isle of Man
42. Mr Qamar Sohail Lodhi, Special Secretary, National Assembly of Pakistan
43. Mr Richard Ward, Clerk (Journal Office), House of Commons, UK Parliament
44. Lord Lisvane KCB, Member of the House of Lords and Former Clerk of the House of Commons, UK Parliament
45. Shri Desh Deepak Verma, Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabja, India
46. Ms Nenelwa Mwihambi, Director of The Chamber Office, Parliament of Tanzania
47. Mr Roger Phillips, Clerk of Tynwald and Secretary of the House of Keys, Parliament of the Isle of Man
48. Mr David Kusilifu, Clerk of Parliament, Solomon Islands
49. Ms Suze Jones, Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives, New Zealand
50. Mr James Picker, Clerk Assistant, House of Representatives, New Zealand
51. Nerusha Naidoo, Secretary of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
52. Mr Simon Ross, Greffier of the States of Deliberation, Guernsey
53. Mr Alasdair Rendall, Head of Media Relations, House of Commons, UK Parliament
54. Mr Mark Jenner, Head of Internal Communications (Operations), House of Commons, UK Parliament
55. Ms Josephine Watera, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Parliament of Uganda
56. Dominic Stockbridge, UK Parliament, Committee Clerk
57. Matthew Hamilton, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, CPA UK
58. Rebekah Northall, Projects & Programme Manager, CPA UK
59. Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo, Director of Practice Development, Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions

The CPA acknowledge the work of the CPA Headquarters Secretariat team who designed, developed, edited and contributed content across the Academy. In particular, Mr Matthew Salik, Head of Parliamentary Development, Ms Lydia Buchanan, Programme Manager, for leading and coordinating the overall project.

Finally, a special acknowledgement must go to the Hon. Tanya August-Hanson MLC, Isle of Man who strongly encouraged the development of a flexible online learning platform for the utilisation of Commonwealth parliamentarians.

All titles accurate at time of contribution to the CPA Parliamentary Academy.