Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan (born 1961) is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)[1] and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. Previously he was:
- CEO of the Young Foundation based in London
- Director of Policy at 10 Downing Street under British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
- Director of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit (formerly known as the Performance and Innovation Unit),
- Co-founder and Director of the London based think tank Demos (from 1993–98),
- Chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP in the early 1990s [2]
Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford[3] and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. He was also a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, trained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka [4] and worked for a spell during the 1980s as a van driver for the "Labour-supporting collective of musicians and comedians known as Red Wedge",[5] opting ultimately for a career in local government and academia in the UK and going on to become an influential writer on social and political issues in various newspapers and magazines in the 1990s including the Independent, Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman and Marxism Today. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and radio and was made a CBE in 2005.[6]
He has written a number of books including: Communication and Control:networks and the new economies of communication (1991), Politics in an Anti-Political Age (1994), Connexity (1997), Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government (Penguin 2006) and The Art of Public Strategy (2009). He has written numerous Demos reports and pamphlets. His current base, the Young Foundation, mainly works on social innovation - the design and launch of new social organisations, but also produces some publications, including recent ones on social innovation and the state of British society [7] He has lectured and advised governments around the world on policy and strategy - including China, Australia, the United States, Japan and Russia. He is profiled in two books - The New Alchemists (1999 by Charles Handy) and Visionaries (2001 by Jay Walljasper). He has been a trustee of the Design Council, the Work Foundation, Crime Concern, Involve and Political Quarterly, and a member of various commissions for bodies including the European Commission and the Academy of Medical Science.
On 19 July 2010, Dr Mulgan was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Science (DSoc Sci) by Nottingham Trent University[8]
References[edit]
- ^ NESTA appoints new Chief Executive - NESTA
- ^ UK Who's Who 2006.
- ^ The swot who knows best - News - The Independent
- ^ Jay Walljasper, Visionaries, Utne Books, 2001, and Charles Handy, The New Alchemists, Random House, 1999.
- ^ Geoff Mulgan is the ultimate New Labourite | Politics | The Guardian
- ^ Comment is free: Geoff Mulgan Profile
- ^ www.youngfoundation.org.
- ^ Dr Geoff Mulgan receives honorary degree from Nottingham Trent University
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