Brendan Martin
Brendan Martin is Public World’s managing director and a specialist in the labour and social dimensions of industrial and public sector restructuring. His background is in communications and he is a highly experienced facilitator and educator.
With experience in more than 70 countries, Brendan has worked with international institutions, governments and unions to facilitate consultative approaches to change.
An increasing focus of his work is the growing prevalence of ‘precarious’ employment relationships and the situation of informal economy workers, about which he has produced reports for several global union federations.
A journalist, editor and broadcaster by background, Brendan’s written output includes In the Public Interest? Privatization and Public Service Reform (Zed, 1994), which has appeared in six languages. He has also contributed chapters to several edited collections, such as Privatization and Labor, Marsha Pripstein Posuney and Linda J. Cook (eds.), Edward Elgar, 2002, and was an author of the World Bank/PPIAF toolkit Labor Issues in Infrastructure Reform.
As well as working with unions and other civil society organisations, Brendan has been a member of the OECD's Advisory Group on Privatisation and UNCTAD’s Ad Hoc Working Group on Privatisation.
