2017/18 ANNUAL REPORT CHAPTER 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS ENGAGING WITH GOVERNMENTS AND PRACTITIONERS 31 WELCOME 3 Deepening relations with governments and leading policymakers 32 Year in review 4 Leadership programmes 34 Governance of the School 5 Public engagement 35 International Advisory Board 6 The Challenges of Government Conference 36 Academic Advisory Board 7 The Kyoto Prize at Oxford 37 Visiting practitioners and academics 38 RESEARCH WITH IMPACT 8 Research programmes 9 Partnerships 39 New research 14 DEVELOPING THE SCHOOL 40 Awards and new books 16 Finance 41 Thanking our supporters 42 TEACHING TO ADDRESS POLICY CHALLENGES 17 The MPP year 18 Our faculty 43 Master of Public Policy (MPP) 20 Student success 22 MPP student recruitment 23 Alumni 25 DPhil in Public Policy 30 2 Development Forum. In Latin America, the World of the School enabling leaders to take a short WELCOME Economic Forum invited us to co-chair the regional moment away from their current roles to reflect on meeting this year. The Commission on State their practice, benefitting from new research and Fragility, Growth and Development (joint with exchanging ideas, and to build a network that will London School of Economics) published its enable them to tackle the challenges of public recommendations in April which we discussed at leadership. the Commonwealth Heads of Government We are fortunate to benefit from an ever- meeting and at the Annual Meetings of the IMF strengthening partnership with the Africa Initiative and World Bank. Our faculty member Professor for Governance (AIG), which is bringing Pepper Culpepper has just been awarded a €2.5 outstanding Nigerian and Ghanaian students to the million grant from the European Research Council MPP, and a distinguished AIG Fellow to the School for a groundbreaking project on public attitudes to each year: this year Ghana’s Chief Justice banks and mass media. Our Master and Doctoral Last year, I started this report by describing Georgina Wood spent time in the School. Equally programmes are attracting better and better pools 2016/17 as an astonishing year. It is fair to say we our partnership with the Lemann Foundation is of candidates, and current MPP students will have had another fairly astonishing year, not just in enabling us not just to educate outstanding undertake summer projects this year with the United Kingdom and USA, but globally. We Brazilian MPP candidates, but to engage with organisations as diverse as the UK Cabinet Ofce, have seen an escalation in tension between Russia Brazilian policymakers and scholars at a time of UNICEF, the World Health Organisation and and the West, a new political order emerging in momentous change in the country. Vodafone. We are deluged with requests from China, challenges to the fragile global nuclear non- around the world to collaborate, to host, and to I hope you enjoy reading this report which ofers a proliferation order, fraught elections across many consider joint projects. That said, we definitely do summary of activities in the School throughout the countries where results confirm a collapse in not rest on our laurels and have identified areas for year, as well as a glimpse of our future plans. It is support for established political parties. All of this further development over the coming year. also an opportunity to highlight the relentless hard underscores the importance of our research, work of our faculty and staf, and the generosity of teaching, and engagement aimed at improving We continue to deepen our engagement with our supporters and friends. government. governments, policymakers and those who share our commitment to a world better governed, with a Highlights in the School this year have been many. particular focus this year on the UK, China and We were thrilled to be chosen by the Bill & Melinda Brazil. We are delighted to have commenced a new Gates Foundation to lead a major global partnership with Caixin Media and have recently commission on technology and inclusive welcomed our first Caixin Media Fellow. In January development. The Chinese government has asked Ngaire Woods we hosted a ‘bootcamp’ on building integrity and to expand our partnership hosting researchers, and values for prospective candidates running for to participate in the annual UK-China election in Brazil later this year. Both are examples 3 YEAR IN REVIEW 174,000 65,500 VIEWS OF OUR ONLINE LEARNERS 194 SHORT VIDEOS OF FROM ALMOST COURSE PUBLIC EVENTS EVERY COUNTRY PARTICIPANTS FROM AND STUDENT PROFILES ENROLLED IN THE 82% GROWTH IN ALL REGIONS OF THE MOOC RESEARCH INCOME WORLD, A TO £3.73M IN 2017/18 40% INCREASE IN 2017/18 18 NEW OVER NEARLY 100 PUBLIC 4,000 RESEARCH TALKS AND APPLICATIONS FOR THE MPP TO GRANTS DISCUSSIONS, RANGING FROM DATE, WITH A RECORD CONFERENCES TO 793 ‘IN CONVERSATIONS’ APPLICATIONS FOR 2018 NEARLY 50% INCREASE IN STUDENTS FROM 42% GROWTH RESEARCHERS 53 COUNTRIES IN DONATIONS NEW AND ALL G20 FOR FELLOWSHIP COUNTRIES SCHOLARSHIPS TO £1.32M IN 2017/18 PARTNERSHIP WITH CAIXIN MEDIA A NEW CASE LAUNCH OF THE COMPANY LTD CENTRE ON PATHWAYS FOR PUBLIC PROSPERITY THREE-YEAR CONTRACT FOR OUR LEADERSHIP COMMISSION ON FORMED TO IMPLEMENTATION IN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOP CASE GOVERNMENT STUDIES AND INCLUSIVE COURSE DEVELOPMENT 4 GOVERNANCE OF THE SCHOOL Management Board Responsibilities: govern, manage, and regulate the School’s strategy, budget and senior appointments Members include: Dean, Heads of Divisions, Heads of Departments Meeting frequency: three times a year in Oxford Strategy and Resources Group Responsibilities: the strategy and key resourcing decisions of the Academic Advisory Board School Membership: Dean, Vice-Dean, senior faculty representatives, Responsibilities: advise on all International Advisory Board aspects of the School’s academic Chief Operating Ofcer, Director of Finance and HR, Director of Responsibilities: advise on the activities, including programmes, External Relations strategy and priorities of the student engagement, faculty Meeting frequency: minimum of eight per year School recruitment and development, and Membership: globally renowned academic life Senior Management Team leaders from all parts of the world Membership: Deans/Presidents/ Responsibilities: delegated decision-making responsibility for Meeting frequency: annual Heads of School from prominent operational and urgent decisions in light of the direction set by the meeting in Oxford, and ad hoc public policy institutions around Strategy and Resources Group requests from the Dean for advice the world Meeting frequency: termly Membership: Dean, Vice-Dean, Chief Operating Ofcer, senior conference calls professors, Director of Finance and HR, Director of External Relations Admissions Academic Administrative Admissions and Funding Committee DPhil Committee Senior Administrative Team MPP Committee 5 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Founder Mark Carney, Governor of the Andrónico Luksic, Vice Chairman and Chairman, Africa Initiative for Bank of England of the Board of Directors of Banco Governance de Chile Pérsio Arida, Former Chairman of William Jeferson Clinton, Maria Ramos, Chief Executive BTG Pactual 42nd President of the United Ofcer, Barclays Africa Group States, Founding Chairman of the Limited Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative Dominic Barton, Global Managing Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Nazir Razak, Chairman, CIMB Director of McKinsey & Company Ofcer for England and Chief Group Medical Advisor to the UK Government Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and Mathias Döpfner, Chairman and Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Editorial Director at HT Media CEO of Axel Springer AG Google Limited Lord John Browne of Madingley, Philipp Hildebrand, Vice Chairman Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Chairman of L1 Energy, Chair of of Blackrock Hiroshima Prefecture the International Advisory Board 6 ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD Yann Algan, Dean, School of Public Vali Nasr, Dean, Johns Hopkins Lan Xue, Dean, School of Public Afairs, Sciences Po, France School of Advanced International Policy and Management, Tsinghua Studies, USA University, China Douglas Elmendorf, Dean, Harvard Enase Okonedo, Dean, Lagos Kennedy School, USA Business School, Nigeria Michael Ignatief, President, Cecilia Rouse, Dean, Woodrow Central European University, Wilson School of Public and Hungary International Afairs, Princeton University, USA 7 CHAPTER 2 RESEARCH WITH IMPACT Launch of Pathways for Prosperity Commission on Technology and Inclusive Development in January 2018. Pictured are co-chairs Melinda Gates and Strive Masiyiwa. poverty reduction, and to mitigate against the Indonesia) and Strive Masiyiwa (founder and RESEARCH possible negative efects. executive chairman of Econet). PROGRAMMES Pathways for Prosperity is founded and managed HOW TO IMPROVE GOVERNMENT by the Blavatnik School and funded by the Bill & COMMISSIONING Melinda Gates Foundation. Governments commission many services from the private and not-for-profit sectors. As the 2018 collapse of Carillion (which had billions of pounds’ worth of UK public service contracts) showed, this A priority for this year has been to develop can go badly wrong. How can policymakers ensure research which directly engages governments and commissioning delivers benefits? public leaders. We have had an 82% growth in Launched in 2016, the Government Outcomes Lab research income to £3.73m. (GO Lab) is a partnership with the UK government HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY AID INCLUSIVE which exists to help improve public services to DEVELOPMENT? tackle the most serious social