Sir Geoff Mulgan CBE is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 Geoff had roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the first director of the think-tank Demos; and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
At UCL he teaches undergraduates (in the Science and Engineering for Social Change BSc), graduate students in MPA programmes, and PhD students. His most recent course is on AI and algorithmic governance.
He has a PhD in telecommunications and has been a visiting professor at London School of Economics (LSE) and Melbourne University, a senior visiting scholar at Harvard University and President of the Innovation Design Department at the Italian University for Design (IAAD) in Turin. He has also been a regular lecturer at the China Executive Leadership Academy.
Geoff helped found many organisations including Demos, the Young Foundation, the Social Innovation Exchange (SIX), Uprising, Studio Schools Trust, Action for Happiness, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, the Australia Centre for Social Innovation and Nesta Italia. He has co-chaired a World Economic Forum group looking at innovation and entrepreneurship in the fourth industrial revolution.
He has advised many governments. He is on the advisory panel for STOA which advises the European Parliament on science and technology. He was a World Economic Forum Schwab Fellow from 2019-22, and a fellow of Demos Helsinki and the New Institute in Hamburg. In 2023-24 he chaired a European Commission programme on ‘Whole of Government Innovation’. He is a board member of CEPS, the Centre for European Policy Studies, the leading EU thinktank in Brussels, since 2025.
He is an editor in chief of the Collective Intelligence journal published by ACM and Sage (launched 2022).
He has pioneered many ideas used by governments and others – including creative economy strategies, joined-up government, anticipatory regulation, experimentalism, open innovation and problem-solving methods. Geoff has given TED talks on the future economy, happiness and education.
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