Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation between 2011 and the end of 2019. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and the Performance and Innovation Unit, and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
Books in order of publication:
Saturday night or Sunday morning: from arts to industry, new forms of cultural policy – 1986
Communications and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication – 1991
Politics in an Antipolitical Age – 1994
Freedom’s Children:
Work, Relationships and Politics for 18-34 Year-olds in Britain Today – 1995
Connexity- 1997
Wide Open – 2005
Good and Bad Power: The Ideals and Betrayals of Government – 2006
The Art of Public Strategy – 2009
The Open Book of Social Innovation – 2010
The Locust and the Bee – 2013
BIG MIND: How collective intelligence can change our World – 2017
Social Innovation: How Societies find the Power to Change – 2019
Another World is Possible – 2022
Prophets at a Tangent – 2023
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