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His Twitter handle is @geoffmulgan and a summary of ideas Geoff has worked on can be found here. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and radio, and was made a CBE in 2005.
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 advised many governments. He was also a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, trained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka, 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", 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 1980s, including The Independent, Financial Times, Guardian, and New Statesman.
From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. He has lectured and advised governments around the world on policy and strategy – including China, Australia, the United States, Japan, and Russia – and is seen as one of the pioneers of the global field of social innovation.
He is profiled in two books: The New Alchemists (1999, by Charles Handy), and Visionaries (2001, by Jay Walljasper).
He is chair of the Studio Schools Trust; co-chair of the London LEP Digital,Science, Technology and Arts group; a board member of Big Society Capital; and 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.
Geoff has given TED talks on the future economy, happiness and education. His speeches on technology, innovation, and creativity have inspired TED and other leading conference audiences.
Geoff Mulgan
Geoff Mulgan CBE (born 1961) is Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) and Visiting Professor at University College London, the London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne.
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Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Ph.D.
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Helping to create new organisations
Thanks for visiting and engaging with the work I do. He is on the advisory panel for STOA which advises the European Parliament on science and technology.
He has co-chaired a World Economic Forum group looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrial revolution. Many of the ideas Geoff has worked on have gone onto become mainstream, from creative economy strategies to social investing, open data to collective intelligence, experimental and evidence-based government to policies for well-being and challenge-driven innovation. Geoff has given TED talks on the future economy, happiness and education. His website is geoffmulgan.com. He has a CBE and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020.
Professor
At UCL, I teach undergraduates on a new degree linking engineering, science and technology to social change, focused on systems and their transformation. I've also been teaching a new MPA course on intelligence, AI and algorithmic governance in early 2025.
His previous senior positions include CEO of the Young Foundation and NESTA (National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts). His most recent book is The Locust and the Bee (Princeton, 2013) that has been translated into languages including Chinese, Russian, and Arabic.
He has written numerous reports and pamphlets for Demos, the Young Foundation, and Nesta.
In 2023-24 he chaired a European Commission programme on 'Whole of Government Innovation'. He is a board member of CEPS, the Centre for European Policy Studies, the leading EU thinktank in Brussels, since 2025.
He is an editor in chief of the Collective Intelligence journal published by ACM and Sage (launched 2022).
He has pioneered many ideas used by governments and others – including creative economy strategies, joined-up government, anticipatory regulation, experimentalism, open innovation and problem-solving methods.He was a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow from 2019-22, and a fellow of Demos Helsinki and the New Institute in Hamburg. Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. A highly sought-after keynote speaker, Geoff has delivered talks worldwide on topics ranging from creativity and innovation to leadership and social change.
Since 2020, Geoff has been a Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London and is a senior visiting fellow at Harvard University.