When we think about a country’s government, many of us are likely to conjure up images in our mind of our country’s Prime Minister, Taoiseach, or President… or perhaps a senior Minister who is in the public eye a lot. But we shouldn’t overlook the large number of people who play an integral role in supporting these figureheads. In the UK, more than half a million people work for the British Civil Service which, between 2005 and 2011, was led by today’s guest, Lord Gus O’Donnell.

Lord O’Donnell is a proud wellbeing public policy advocate, and a valued member of the World Wellbeing Movement’s Board of Trustees. In this episode of the Working on Wellbeing podcast, he talks host Sarah Cunningham through his journey into wellbeing economics, and his hopes for a wellbeing policy agenda that helps society move ‘beyond GDP’. Gus advocates for a government that prioritises the wellbeing of its people as the measure of success.

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