Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE was born on 1961 and is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London.
13 Facts About Geoff Mulgan
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Geoff Mulgan worked as a reporter for BBC television and radio, and was made a CBE in 2005.
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Geoff Mulgan's books have been translated into many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Malay, German, Turkish, Punjabi, Italian, Korean, Hungarian and Arabic.
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Geoff Mulgan has written numerous reports and pamphlets for Demos, the Young Foundation, Nesta, and Demos Helsinki.
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Geoff Mulgan is profiled in two books: The New Alchemists, and Visionaries.
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Geoff Mulgan has founded or co-founded many organisations including: Demos, the Young Foundation, the Social Innovation Exchange, Uprising, Studio Schools Trust, Action for Happiness, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, States of Change, The Australian Centre for Social Innovation, Maslaha and Nesta Italia.
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Geoff Mulgan is a founding editor-in-chief of the journal Collective Intelligence, published by Sage and ACM.
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Geoff Mulgan has been chair of various organisations including the Social Innovation Exchange; Involve; Nesta Italia and the Studio Schools Trust.
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Geoff Mulgan has been a board member of Big Society Capital and a trustee of charities including Action for Happiness; the Photographers Gallery; Reimagine Europa; Luton Culture Trust; the Design Council, the Work Foundation, Crime Concern, and Political Quarterly, and a member of various committees for bodies including the European Commission, World Economic Forum, OECD, SITRA and the Academy of Medical Science.
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Geoff Mulgan has given TED talks on the global economy, education, and happiness.
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From 2016 to 2019, Geoff Mulgan was a senior visiting scholar at the Ash Center in the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
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Geoff Mulgan was awarded an honorary fellowship by Cardiff University in 2022.
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Geoff Mulgan was knighted in the Queen's 2020 Birthday Honours for services to the creative economy.