Geoff Mulgan

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Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation based in London and Visiting Professor at University College, London, London School of Economics and University of Melbourne.

Previously he was:

  • Director of Policy at 10 Downing Street under 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, now UK Chancellor of the Exchequer
  • Lecturer and consultant on telecommunications based at the University of Westminster and MIT, part of the Comedia group working on cultural and arts policies and occasional writer for Marxism Today.

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)

He has also written numerous Demos reports and pamphlets. His current base, the Young Foundation, mainly works on social innovation - design and launch of new social organisations, but also produces some publications, including recent ones on social innovation and the state of British society[1]. He regularly lectures and advises governments around the world on policy and strategy - including China, Australia, the US, Japan and Russia.

He obtained his Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. He was a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford.

He is profiled in two books - The New Alchemists (1999 by Charles Handy) and Visionaries (2001 by Jay Walljasper).

He has also written several articles for British political magazine Prospect.

[edit] Videos

  • What's Next for Labour ? Geoff Mulgan summarizes his view of Tony Blair's accomplishments and challenges for the future at this video online closing a conference on eight years of Blair government, in May 2006
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