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), Dr Andrea Cullen FGIA FCG (Australia), Hon. Vicki Dunne (Australia), Ms Erika Trabucco (France), Ms Iris Carolus (Seychelles), Ms Michele Martin (Seychelles) and Gender Solution (Poland). 

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. Matthew Mason-Cox, President of the Legislative Council, New South Wales, Australia
3. Hon. Adrien Rurawhe MP, Speaker of the New Zealand Parliament
4. Hon. Bridgid Annissette-George, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republic of Trinidad & Tobago
5. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin MP, Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana
6. Hon. Azhar bin Azizan Harun, Former Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat, Malaysia
7. Hon. Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert MP, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Jamaica
8. Hon. Juan Watterson SHK, Speaker of the House of Keys, Isle of Man
9. The Rt Hon. Baroness Hayman GBE, Former Lord Speaker, UK
10. The Rt Hon. Baroness D'Souza CMG, Former Lord Speaker, UK
11. Hon. Ted Arnott, Speaker of the Ontario Legislative Assembly, Canada
12. Hon. Dennis Lister JP MP, Speaker of the House of Assembly, Bermuda
13. Hon. Sharie De Castro MHA, Junior Minister for Tourism, British Virgin Islands
14. Mr Stephen Twigg, CPA Secretary-General
15. Hon. Kate Doust MLC, Former President of the Legislative Council, Western Australia, Australia 
16. Hon Beverley Schäfer MPP, Deputy Speaker, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
17. Hon. Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury MP, Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament, Bangladesh
18. Hon. Nathan Cooper MLA, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada
19. Hon. Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings MP, Member of Parliament, Ghana
20. Hon. Akierra Missick MP, Member of Parliament Turks and Caicos Islands
21. Hon. Louisa Wall MP, Former Member of Parliament, House of Representatives, New Zealand
22. Hon. Darren Jones MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom
23. Hon. Lillian Greenwood MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, United Kingdom
24. Hon. Nontembeko Nothemba Boyce MPL, Speaker of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature, South Africa
25. Hon. Mohamed Nasheed MP, Speaker of the People’s Majlis, Maldives
26. Hon. Yasmin Ratansi MP, Former Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Canada
27. Hon. Lord Fakafuna, Speaker of the Parliament of Tonga
28. Sen. Yuen Pau Woo, Senate of Canada
29. Dame Meg Hillier MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, UK Parliament
30. Hon. James Avedzi MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Ghana
31. Hon. Valens Muhakwa MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, Parliament of Rwanda 
32. Hon. Tracey Taegar-Panton MP, Chair, Joint Public Accounts Committee, Belize
33. Hon. Ruth Forrest MLC, Chair of Committees, Tasmanian Legislative Council
34. Hon. Mohamed Nashiz MP, Chair, Public Accounts Committee, The People’s Majlis, Maldives
35. Hon. Richard Bacon MP, Member, UK House of Commons
36. Hon. Tom Kmiec MP, Former Chair, Standing Committee on Public Accounts, House of Commons, Canada 
37. Ms Tara Kerpens-Lee, Engagement Officer, UK Parliament
38. Ms Zena Merrin-Chin, Clerk of Parliament, Cayman Islands
39. Mr Siow Peng Han, Deputy Clerk, Parliament of Singapore
40. Mr Vernon Titus, Director of Institutional Enablement, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
41. Mr Tom Duncan, Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
42. Ms Awongiwe Mtimkulu, Researcher, Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
43. Mr Mark Egan, Former Greffier of the States Assembly, Jersey
44. Mr Themba Keswa, Manager of Public Education and Outreach Western Cape Provincial Parliament, South Africa
45. Mr David Wilson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, New Zealand
46. Mr Blair Armitage, Clerk Assistant, Senate of Canada, Canada
47. Mr Jeffrey LeBlanc, Principal Clerk, House of Commons, Canada
48. Ms Libby Kurien, Head of the Centre of Excellence of Procedural Practice, House of Commons, UK Parliament
49. Ms Jo Corkish, Third Clerk, Tynwald, Parliament of the Isle of Man
50. Shri Chitra Velmurugan, Secretary, Delhi Legislative Assembly, India
51. Dr Jonathan King, Clerk of Tynwald, Parliament of Isle of Man
52. Mr Qamar Sohail Lodhi, Special Secretary, National Assembly of Pakistan
53. Mr Richard Ward, Clerk (Journal Office), House of Commons, UK Parliament
54. Lord Lisvane KCB, Member of the House of Lords and Former Clerk of the House of Commons, UK Parliament
55. Shri Desh Deepak Verma, Secretary-General of the Rajya Sabja, India
56. Ms Nenelwa Mwihambi, Director of The Chamber Office, Parliament of Tanzania
57. Mr Roger Phillips, Former Clerk of Tynwald, Parliament of the Isle of Man
58. Mr David Kusilifu, Clerk of Parliament, Solomon Islands
59. Ms Suze Jones, Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives, New Zealand
60. Mr James Picker, Clerk Assistant, House of Representatives, New Zealand
61. Nerusha Naidoo, Secretary of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature
62. Mr Simon Ross, Greffier of the States of Deliberation, Guernsey
63. Mr Alasdair Rendall, Head of Media Relations, House of Commons, UK Parliament
64. Mr Mark Jenner, Head of Internal Communications (Operations), House of Commons, UK Parliament
65. Ms Josephine Watera, Head of Monitoring and Evaluation, Parliament of Uganda
66. Dominic Stockbridge, UK Parliament, Committee Clerk
67. Matthew Hamilton, Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, CPA UK
68. Rebekah Northall, Former Projects & Programme Manager, CPA UK
69. Sinaroseta Palamo-Iosefo, Director of Practice Development, Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions
70. Hon. Waven William, Member of Parliament Seychelles 
71. Dr Stefano Moncada, Director of the Islands & Small States Institute, Malta 
72. Professor Lino Briguglio, Former Director of the Islands & Small States Institute, Malta 
73. Tanvi Mani, UNFCC
74. Nigel Crawhill, UNESCO 
75. Kate Higham, The Gratham Institute 
76. Deputy Inna Gardiner, Minister for Children and Education, Jersey 
77. Professor Michael Briguglio, Islands & Small States Institute, Malta 
78. Hon. Jeremiah Norbert, Deputy Speaker Parliament of St Lucia 
79. Hon. Viam Pillay MP, Member of the Fiji Parliament and CPwD Pacific Regional Champion
80. Ann Moghaddami, Senior Diversity and Inclusion Manager, House of Commons, UK
81. Mr James Scott, Manager, Department of Parliamentary Services, Parliament of Victoria, Australia 
82. Senator Datuk Ras Adiba Radzi PMW, Member of the Senate of Malaysia 
83. Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Member of the House of Commons, UK
84. Hon. Cedric Frolick MP, Chair of Committees, National Assembly of the Republic of South Africa 
85. Hon. Zill-E-Huma MNA, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
86. Sarah Childs, Professor of Politics and Gender, University of Edinburgh
87. Dr Anna Mahoney, Administrative Associate Professor of Women's Political Leadership and Director of Research, Tulane University
88. Dr Nadia E Browne, Professor of Government and Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies, Georgetown University
89. Dr Shahida Rehmani MNA, Secretary of the Pakistan Women’s Parliamentary Caucus
90. Hon. Valerie Woods, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Belize
91. Eilish Elliott, Project Manger, Gender Equality, ParlAmericas
92. Hon. Veronica Sessay MP, Member of Parliament, Sierra Leonne 
93. Hon. Monica Chang'anamuno MP, Member of Parliament, Malawi
94. Hannah Johnson, Research Manger, Welsh Parliament (Senedd Cymru)
95. Hon. Iqra Khalid MP, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Canada
96. Hon. Alincia Williams-Grant, President of the Senate, Antigua and Barbuda
97. Hon. Cynthia Muge MP, Member of Parliament, Kenya 
98. Hon. Naisula Lesuuda MP OGW, Member of Parliament, Kenya 
99. Hon. Beatrice Elachi MP CBS, Member of Parliament, Kenya 
100. Hon. Robert Basil MP, Member of Parliament, Kenya 
101. Martin Chungong, Secretary-General, Inter-Parliamentary Union

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 Programmes, 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.