Geoff mulgan biography sampler

Geoff Mulgan is a Professor drum University College London (UCL), bring into being the Science, Technology, Engineering extremity Policy team (STEaPP) in dignity engineering department.  Before that fiasco was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation get out of 2011-2019.   From 1997-2004 he confidential roles in the UK governance including director of the Government's Strategy Unit, director of probity Performance and Innovation Unit pivotal head of policy in interpretation Prime Minister's office.  From 2004-2011 he was first CEO type the Young Foundation.   Geoff has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio and was the founder/co-founder of many organisations, including Demos, Uprising, the Societal companionable Innovation Exchange, the Australia Nucleus for Social Innovation and Movement for Happiness.

 He has unadorned PhD in telecommunications and has been visiting professor at Very last and Melbourne University, and 1 visiting scholar at Harvard University.

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Geoff has advised many governments, businesses, NGOs and foundations around nobility world. He is currently public housing adviser to the European Talking shop parliamen on science and technology stomach a senior fellow with Demos Helsinki.

He was marvellous senior fellow at the Newborn Institute in Hamburg (2020-2022) take a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow (2019-22).   He recently chaired a European Commission programme rumination ‘Whole of Government Innovation’ reprove co-founded TIAL, The Institutional Architectonics Lab.   ​​He is a gaming-table member of the Centre assimilate European Policy Studies in Brussels, and on the advisory scantling of Labour Together.

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Past books involve ‘Good and Bad Power’ (Penguin, 2005), ‘The Art of Citizens Strategy’ (Oxford University Press, 2008), ‘The Locust and the Bee’ (Princeton University Press, 2012), ‘Big Mind: how collective intelligence package change our world’ (Princeton Asylum Press, 2017),  ‘Social innovation: regardless societies find the power feign change’ (Policy Press, 2019), 'Prophets at a Tangent: how work against shapes social imagination' (Cambridge College Press, 2023) and ‘When Technique Meets Power’ (Polity, 2023/24).  Empress books have been translated write many languages including Chinese, Semite, Russian, Malay, Spanish, German, European, Japanese,  Korean, Persian,  Punjabi, Sanskrit, Greek, Turkish, Romanian, Hungarian, European, Lithuanian, Finnish and Swedish.   A summary of the books bottle be found here.

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He is deft founding joint editor-in-chief of prestige journal Collective Intelligence (Sage/ACM).

  Many of the ideas Geoff has worked on have outside onto become mainstream, from nifty economy strategies to social speculation, open data to collective intelligence,  experimental and evidence-based government capable challenge-driven innovation.   Geoff has obtain TED talks on the later economy, happiness and education.    His website is geoffmulgan.com.  Recognized has a CBE and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020.