Living Cities: Another World is Possible - Sir Geoff Mulgan in conversation

The world is in crisis, but we struggle to imagine a better future for democracy, welfare, neighbourhoods or education. We want transformational social change yet feel resigned to fatalism.

In Another World is Possible, visionary social and political thinker Sir Geoff Mulgan draws on social sciences, the arts, philosophy and history to show how we can recharge our collective imagination to shape our future

Sir Geoff will be in conversation with Dr Vafa Ghazavi.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

SIR GEOFF MULGAN CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Previously, he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation (2011-2019), and from 1997-2004 he had roles in the UK government including as head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. From 2004-2011 he was first CEO of the Young Foundation. Sir Geoff is the founder/co-founder of numerous organisations, including The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL). He is currently a senior fellow with Demos Helsinki and serves on the board of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. His many books include Good and Bad Power (2005), The Art of Public Strategy (2008), The Locust and the Bee (2012), Big Mind (2017) and When Science Meets Power (2023).

VAFA GHAZAVI is a political theorist at the University of Sydney and former Australian diplomat. He was the inaugural Executive Director for Research and Policy at the Australian Public Policy Institute and before that taught political philosophy at the University of Oxford. Vafa previously worked in Canberra at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and has been a Visiting Researcher at Google DeepMind and a Carr Center Fellow at Harvard University. He currently serves on the board of the Centre for Relational Care and on the research committee of Amplify.

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