Workshop on the Future of Government

Anandi Mani

Anandi is Professor of Behavioural Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. Her research interests are in the area of Development Economics, with a specific focus on issues related to the behavioural economics of poverty and social exclusion, gender issues and public good provision. She is a Research Affiliate at Ideas42, a think tank for behavioural economics at Harvard University, and a Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick. Her recent work has been published in prominent economics journals and has also featured in leading newspapers including The New York Times and The Guardian, as well as the BBC. Professor Mani was a programme participant at the World Economic Forum 2017 in Davos and is a member of the Forum’s Global Council on the Future of Behavioral Sciences.

Alice Hopkin

Alice is a Pershing Square Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she is completing the Oxford 1+1 MBA with a Master of Public Policy. Her work focuses on international development, migration, and the relationship between political incentives, government institutions and long-term policy delivery. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Coalition for Global Prosperity, where she recently published a policy paper examining Giorgia Meloni’s Mattei Plan for Africa and the lessons it offers for the future of UK development policy. Alice previously served as a Special Adviser in the UK Government to two Cabinet ministers covering three departments: the Home Secretary (2023–24), Foreign Secretary (2022–23) and Health Secretary (2021–22). Across these roles, she advised on international development, migration and border security, global health, international crisis response, and wider foreign policy issues. She also oversaw the development and delivery of major government strategies and legislation, including England’s first Women’s Health Strategy and the UK’s International Women and Girls Strategy. In the 2024 UK general election, Alice stood as a parliamentary candidate in Normanton & Hemsworth.

İrem Güçeri

İrem is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a Fellow of St Antony’s College. Her research focuses on taxation and how government policies can promote productivity and economic growth. Prior to her academic career, she worked in management consulting and as an economist at the World Bank, advising on corporate tax policy, R&D, and private sector development. She currently convenes the core Economics course for the Master of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School and co-chairs the Directors Leadership Programme for the UK Civil Service.

Peter Frankopan

Peter es catedrático de Historia Global en la Universidad de Oxford, donde dirige el Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research y es investigador principal en el Worcester College de Oxford. También es catedrático de Estudios de las Rutas de la Seda y Bye-Fellow del King's College de Cambridge. Trabaja en la historia y la política del Mediterráneo, Rusia, Oriente Próximo, Persia/Irán, Asia Central, China y más allá, así como en las historias del clima, los recursos naturales y las conectividades. Está especializado en la historia del Imperio bizantino en el siglo XI y en la historia de Asia Menor, Rusia y los Balcanes. Trabaja sobre la literatura y la retórica griegas medievales y sobre los intercambios diplomáticos y culturales entre Constantinopla y el mundo islámico, Europa occidental y los principados del sur de Rusia.

Helen Margetts

Helen is Professor of Society and the Internet and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College. She is a political scientist specialising in the relationship between digital technology and government, politics and public policy. She is an advocate for the potential of multi-disciplinarity and computational social science for our understanding of political behaviour and development of public policy in a digital world. She has published over a hundred books, articles and policy reports in this area, including Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action (with Peter John, Scott Hale and Taha Yasseri, 2015); Paradoxes of Modernization (with Perri 6 and Christopher Hood, 2010); Digital Era Governance (with Patrick Dunleavy, 2006, 2008); and The Tools of Government in the Digital Age (with Christopher Hood, 2007). Since 2018, Helen has been Director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Insitute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. The programme works with policy-makers to research and develop ways of using data science and AI to improve policy-making and service provision, foster government innovation and establish an ethical framework for the use of data science in government. The programme comprises over 90 research projects involving 55 researchers across 20 universities, working with over 100 public sector agencies at national, regional, local and international levels of governance.

Ciaran Martin

Ciaran es Catedrático de Práctica en la Gestión de Organizaciones Públicas. Antes de incorporarse a la Escuela, Ciaran fue el Director Ejecutivo fundador del Centro Nacional de Ciberseguridad, que forma parte del GCHQ.

Ciaran lideró un cambio fundamental en el enfoque británico de la ciberseguridad en la segunda mitad de la pasada década. Abogó con éxito por un cambio total de enfoque hacia una postura más intervencionista, que fue adoptada por el Gobierno en la Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de 2015, lo que llevó a la creación del NCSC en 2016 bajo su liderazgo. En el mismo periodo de tiempo, el Reino Unido ha pasado del octavo puesto conjunto al primero en el Índice Global de Ciberseguridad de la Unión Internacional de Telecomunicaciones y el modelo NCSC ha sido ampliamente estudiado y adoptado en países como Canadá y Australia. El enfoque del NCSC ha sido elogiado por responder con rapidez a los incidentes y ofrecer al público británico consejos claros y rápidos para responder a ellos, poner en manos de la industria información antes clasificada para que las empresas puedan defenderse con mayor eficacia, introducir importantes mejoras en la ciberseguridad automática, como contrarrestar la suplantación de identidad de las marcas y desmantelar rápidamente los sitios maliciosos, y proyectar el liderazgo del Reino Unido en ciberseguridad en todo el mundo.

El trabajo de Ciaran, que le llevó a ser nombrado CB en la lista de Honor del Año Nuevo 2020, también ha sido reconocido y galardonado en Estados Unidos y en otros lugares del mundo.

Ngaire Woods

Professor Woods is the founding Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government and Professor of Global Economic Governance at the University of Oxford. An internationally recognized expert on global governance, her research focuses on international institutions, economic development, globalization, and the governance of organizations. She is also the founder of Oxford’s Global Economic Governance Programme and co-founder of the Oxford–Princeton Global Leaders Fellowship. Alongside her academic work, Professor Woods has held numerous leadership and advisory roles in international organizations, foundations, and corporations. She currently serves on the boards or advisory councils of institutions including the Berggruen Institute, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the Centre for Global Development, and the World Economic Forum, where she co-chairs the Global Future Council on Good Governance. She has also advised governments, the International Monetary Fund, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the G20. Professor Woods is the author of numerous books and scholarly articles on international political economy, globalization, and global governance, and her work has had a significant influence on policy debates worldwide. She studied Economics and Law at the University of Auckland before completing an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In recognition of her contributions to higher education and public policy, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2018. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, an International Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Arts.