Education
Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy in telecommunications from the University of Westminster.
Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Doctor of Philosophy in telecommunications from the University of Westminster.
Previously he was:
Chief Executive Officer of the Young Foundation based in London
Director of the Prime Minister"s Strategy Unit (formerly known as the Performance and Innovation Unit),
Chief adviser to Gordon Brown Member of Parliament in the early 1990s
He worked as a reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation television and radio and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005. He has written a number of books including: Communication and Control:networks and the new economies of communication (1991), Politics in an Anti-Political Age (1994), Connexity (1997), Good and Bad Power: the Ideals and Betrayals of Government (Penguin 2006) and The Art of Public Strategy (2009). His most recent book is The Locust and the Bee (Princeton 2013) that has been translated into languages including Chinese, Russian and Arabic.
He has written numerous reports and pamphlets for Demos, the Young Foundation and Nesta.
He has lectured and advised governments around the world on policy and strategy - including China, Australia, the United States, Japan and Russia, and is seen as one of the pioneers of the global field of social innovation. He is profiled in two books - The New Alchemists (1999 by Charles Handy) and Visionaries (2001 by Jay Walljasper).
He has done TED talks on the global economy, education and happiness. In 2007-2008 Geoff Mulgan was an Adelaide Thinker in Residence advising South Australian Premier Mike Rann on social innovation and social inclusion policies.
As a result of Mulgan"s recommendations the Rann Government established The Australian Centre for Social Innovation.
On 19 July 2010, Doctor Mulgan was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Social Science (DSoc Sciences) by Nottingham Trent University.
He is chair of the Studio Schools Trust. Company-chair of the London LEP Digital,Science, Technology and Arts group. A board member of Big Society Capital, and has been a trustee of the Design Council, the Work Foundation, Crime Concern, Involve and Political Quarterly, and a member of various commissions for bodies including the European Commission and the Academy of Medical Science.