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About Geoff Mulgan

Geoff Mulgan became Director of the Young Foundation in late 2004 after various roles in the UK government, including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. Geoff is a visiting professor at London School of Economics, University College London and Melbourne University. His recent books include The Art of Public Strategy (Oxford University Press) and Good and Bad Power (Penguin).

 

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Articles by Geoff Mulgan

Tuesday 7th June

Why Happiness? an interview with co-founder of Action for Happiness

Geoff Mulgan and William Davies, 7 June 2011
William Davies interviews the co-founder of Action for Happiness to explore the philosophy, politics and economic implications of the happiness agenda
Monday 15th March

The age of we

Geoff Mulgan, 15 March 2010
The Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society launches its report calling for a radical devolution of power and active voice from parliament to the family. In the first of a series of Inquiry articles, Geoff Mulgan claims that three crises have precipitated a major civil society challenge
Thursday 10th April

The new philanthropy: power, inequality, democracy

Geoff Mulgan, 10 April 2008
Michael Edwards's study of “philanthrocapitalism" is welcome. But markets and social enterprise can realise the potential of a new donor economy
Monday 19th September

Open source nation

Geoff Mulgan and Becky Hogge, 19 September 2005
Geoff Mulgan sees two ways in which organisational principles borrowed from the world of open source can make the political process more accountable. One is in turning democracy back into a conversation, the other in allowing the people to scrutinise public services. But, he warns, there still needs to be a recognisable place where the buck stops. Becky Hogge spoke to him.
Wednesday 11th June

Global comparisons in policy-making: the view from the centre

Geoff Mulgan, 11 June 2003
The principle guiding successful governance is changing. Until recently, policy ideas evolved (and too often failed) within a vacuum of national experience and cultural superiority. Today, the global commons – a shared space of experience, knowledge, and experiment – is transforming the way political systems think and operate. One of the architects of the New Labour reform programme in Britain, writing in a personal capacity, maps a key transition.
Wednesday 5th September

The era of the local

Geoff Mulgan, 5 September 2001
Sue Goss’s recent book “Making Local Governance Work” explores the changing experience of local centres of power in Britain under the impact of political reform and cultural change. Geoff Mulgan of the Performance and Innovation Unit in the Cabinet Office (writing here in a personal capacity), welcomes the space of debate she has opened up, but warns that the forces of local revival must still negotiate some traditional obstacles.
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