Geoff Mulgan
Director, Young Foundation
Geoff was Demos founder and first director, he remains an active associate in his role as director of the Young Foundation.
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Email: geoff.mulgan@youngfoundation.org
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In late 2004 Geoff Mulgan became director of the Young Foundation. In previous incarnations under Michael Young (described by Harvard as the world’s greatest entrepreneur of social enterprises) the foundation initiated dozens of new organisations and initiatives including the Open University and Which?, patient-led healthcare and schools for social entrepreneurs.
Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. He was closely involved in the design and rollout of dozens of new organisations and programmes in social policy, welfare, health, education and technology.
Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos, described by the Economist as the UK’s most influential think-tank; chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a consultant and lecturer in telecommunications; and an investment executive. He began his career in local government in London. He has been a reporter for BBC TV and radio and a columnist for national newspapers including the Guardian and Independent. Geoff is a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, and was ranked in 2004 as one of the UK’s 100 leading public intellectuals. He has lectured in over 30 countries. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University, and a visiting fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government. He is a board member of the Work Foundation and the Design Council.
His most recent book is Connexity (Harvard Business Press and Jonathon Cape, 1998). Previous books include: Saturday Night or Sunday Morning (Comedia, 1987); Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication (Blackwells, 1991); Politics in an Antipolitical Age (Polity, 1994); Life After Politics (Harper Collins, 1997).
Geoff has three books forthcoming: Social silicon valleys: on social innovation, what it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated (published by the Young Foundation, April 2006); Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (published by Penguin in June 2006); and The Art of Public Strategy (published by Oxford University Press, 2007). Geoff is profiled in two recent books – The New Alchemists by Charles Handy (Hutchinson, 1999) and Visionaries by Jay Walljasper (Utne Books, USA, 2001).
Publications from the Young Foundation in 2006 include: Porcupines in Winter: the pleasures and pains of living together in modern Britain edited by Geoff Mulgan and Alessandra Buonfino; The New East End by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron and Michael Young (Profile Books); The polycentric metropolis, by Sir Peter Hall and Kathy Pain (Earthscan)
Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. He was closely involved in the design and rollout of dozens of new organisations and programmes in social policy, welfare, health, education and technology.
Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos, described by the Economist as the UK’s most influential think-tank; chief adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a consultant and lecturer in telecommunications; and an investment executive. He began his career in local government in London. He has been a reporter for BBC TV and radio and a columnist for national newspapers including the Guardian and Independent. Geoff is a World Economic Forum Global Leader of Tomorrow, and was ranked in 2004 as one of the UK’s 100 leading public intellectuals. He has lectured in over 30 countries. He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University, and a visiting fellow at the Australia New Zealand School of Government. He is a board member of the Work Foundation and the Design Council.
His most recent book is Connexity (Harvard Business Press and Jonathon Cape, 1998). Previous books include: Saturday Night or Sunday Morning (Comedia, 1987); Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication (Blackwells, 1991); Politics in an Antipolitical Age (Polity, 1994); Life After Politics (Harper Collins, 1997).
Geoff has three books forthcoming: Social silicon valleys: on social innovation, what it is, why it matters and how it can be accelerated (published by the Young Foundation, April 2006); Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (published by Penguin in June 2006); and The Art of Public Strategy (published by Oxford University Press, 2007). Geoff is profiled in two recent books – The New Alchemists by Charles Handy (Hutchinson, 1999) and Visionaries by Jay Walljasper (Utne Books, USA, 2001).
Publications from the Young Foundation in 2006 include: Porcupines in Winter: the pleasures and pains of living together in modern Britain edited by Geoff Mulgan and Alessandra Buonfino; The New East End by Geoff Dench, Kate Gavron and Michael Young (Profile Books); The polycentric metropolis, by Sir Peter Hall and Kathy Pain (Earthscan)