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 issues in our society. Image: launch event in Nairobi. Pictured: Shivani One of the most heartening stories of the past Siroya, commissioner; Stefan Dercon, academic generation is humanity’s fight against extreme director; Melinda Gates, co-chair; Nadiem Makarim, poverty. In just 25 years, the number of poor commissioner; Sri Mulyani Indrawati, co-chair; Strive people has been cut in half, to fewer than 800 Masiyiwa, co-chair; Kamal Bhattacharya, million. Whether this positive trend continues commissioner; and Benno Ndulu, academic director. depends on how we respond to the new forces The commission, which launched in January 2018, shaping our world – in particular, rapid will gather evidence over a two-year period. It will technological change. examine emerging technologies including The Pathways for Prosperity: Commission on automation, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, Technology and Inclusive Development will energy generation and storage, and biotechnology. examine how to turn the potential risks of Pathways for Prosperity is jointly led by academic technological change into opportunities for directors Stefan Dercon (Professor of Economic Image: meeting at the School between the GO Lab inclusive development. Policy, Blavatnik School of Government) and team (Deputy Director Nigel Ball and Director Mara The goal of the commission is to provide Benno Ndulu (former Governor of the Central Airoldi pictured) and Matt Hancock MP, Secretary of policymakers with clear, practical, evidence-based Bank of Tanzania), and co-chairs Melinda Gates State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UK guidance on the steps they can take to harness (co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation); government. technology’s potential for development and Sri Mulyani Indrawati (Minister of Finance of 9 One of the major goals of the GO Lab is to support bond conference for academics, and this year the International Development (DFID) and the policymakers to overcome long-entrenched GO Lab is hosting the conference, which will Australian government’s Department of Foreign delivery issues in the public sector: siloed delivery, include a practitioner strand for the first time. Afairs and Trade (DFAT). short-term planning horizons and cultural inertia. The GO Lab has grown its network of Fellows of RISE’s overriding goal since inception has been to A key question is how social impact bonds, which Practice, which now includes 21 leading experts create a global paradigm shift in the way the world blend outcomes-based contracting with social from across the public, private and voluntary thinks about education. In the past year RISE has investment, might help overcome these structural sectors. The Fellows’ network is joining a wider worked to deepen the consensus that there is a barriers. GO Lab research on this matter has group of influencers to support us with a project ‘learning crisis’ and that the learning outcomes of informed government strategy at the very top level aiming to unearth other emerging approaches to pupils must be addressed if we are to improve of the UK government and Civil Service. tackling entrenched social issues, beyond social education. RISE is seeing a change in the global impact bonds. conversation from a focus on enrolment to one of The insights emerging from this work are being learning. used to support the implementation of social HOW TO BUILD EDUCATION SYSTEMS TO impact bond projects at a local level, particularly CREATE MEANINGFUL LEARNING those supported through the £80m Life Chances The world faces a learning crisis. Despite recent Fund. The GO Lab is the government’s ofcial significant growth in those enrolled in formal evaluation partner for these projects. education, many students continue to lack basic Strengthening local government capacity literacy and numeracy skills. There is an urgent The GO Lab’s major priority is to make research need for audacious solutions that go beyond insights practically useful to government decision- current norms and incremental improvements. makers. The GO Lab regularly convenes public RISE (Research on Improving Systems of servants all over the country to explore approaches Education) researches holistic, practical solutions. to tackling complex social issues. In the past year, RISE has contracted two new Image: keynote panel from the RISE Annual The GO Lab is publishing more and more research teams in Ethiopia and Indonesia to work Conference 2017 in Washington, D.C. Pictured are Lant Pritchett, RISE Research Director; Claudia research findings on its new digital hub alongside existing teams in India, Pakistan, Costin, Center for Innovation and Excellence in golab.bsg.ox.ac.uk, which is rapidly emerging as an Tanzania, and Vietnam. Having six research teams Education Policies, Getulio Vargas Foundation; Alec across diverse countries will enable the programme unparalleled source of trusted information on Gershberg, New School University, University of to look at a number of education systems to gain a outcomes-based commissioning and social impact Pennsylvania; Jaime Saavedra, Education Global bonds. wider understanding of failures and successes. Practice at the World Bank Group; and Liesbet Steer, Education Commission. A hub of emerging practice RISE’s lead researcher is Clare Leaver and the In September 2017 the GO Lab was once again an programme co-director is Calum Miller. RISE is organising partner for the annual social impact funded by the UK government’s Department for 10 The World Bank’s World Development Report government civil service is performing compared civil service reform. There were 80 attendees from 2018, ‘Learning to realise education’s promise’, was with others around the world. The first of its kind, 14 countries, including both Index and non-Index strongly influenced by RISE thinking and amply the InCiSE Index covers 31 countries across countries, a wide range of data partners, senior cited the work of RISE researchers. Europe, North America, South America, Asia and figures from civil services and academic experts in Australasia. civil service reform. The programme has exceeded the publication goals for the year by producing nearly double the By assessing civil service efectiveness based on HOW TO ENSURE GROWTH AND number of blogs (25), insights (four), and working how the civil service delivers its functions, the Index DEVELOPMENT IN FRAGILE STATES papers (nine) that was expected. Year-on-year reveals what countries do well and where they can 65 million people are currently either refugees or increases for paper submissions and attendees at improve. It serves as a performance improvement internally displaced: the highest number since our annual conference have far exceeded tool, as well as an accountability tool, allowing 1945. This reflects a widespread and persistent expectations and reinforced its reputation as a citizens, government ofcials and politicians to phenomenon: many states are fragile, and first-class conference. Through the use of social establish how well their civil service is functioning. periodically some melt down into violent disorder. media and nearly doubling the target of 1,000 Twitter followers, the RISE website and materials The Blavatnik School of Government has co- have now been accessed by people in 140 hosted the LSE-Oxford Commission on State countries. In 2018, RISE applied to DFID Fragility, Growth and Development, set up to both successfully for additional funding to augment the guide policy and encourage new research by programme. highlighting critical areas of knowledge missing about economic growth in fragile and conflict The UK Parliament's International Development situations. Select Committee highlighted RISE as a positive Image: delegation to the InCiSE Conference from the example of DFID-funded education research and Republic of the Union of Myanmar, including Win Since its ofcial launch in March 2017, the Fragility recognised the contribution RISE will have towards Thein, Chairman, Union Civil Service Board, Commission has held five evidence sessions on achieving Sustainable Development Goal Four and Myanmar (pictured left), and alumnus Thaw Zin conflict and security, state legitimacy, state Aung Gyi, MPP 2015 (pictured centre). quality education for all. efectiveness, private sector development, and The International Civil Service Efectiveness resilience, as well as a roundtable on innovations in HOW TO MEASURE THE EFFECTIVENESS (InCiSE) Index is a collaboration between the fragile environments. These sessions brought OF CIVIL SERVICES Blavatnik School of Government and the Institute together leading academics and practitioners to How does a country know how well its civil service for Government. The project has been supported speak to commissioners about their experience and is performing? by the UK Civil Service and is funded by the Open the latest research evidence in this field. In Society Foundation. addition, 25 country case studies and background Launched in July 2017, the InCiSE Index draws papers were commissioned. Finally, a number of together a wealth of existing data to provide a In September 2017, the Blavatnik School hosted bilateral meetings and roundtable events were held concise assessment of how a country’s central the inaugural InCiSE Conference focused around 11 with key stakeholders covering specific countries or practitioners, and structured around the decisions On the request of the Mayor of Kabul, Sir Paul sub-topics. urban policymakers face. Collier spoke to the Deputy Mayor of Kabul in December 2017 to explore policy options for Under the leadership of co-chairs David Cameron Content produced by the initiative includes informal settlements. As a result, Cities that Work (former Prime Minister of the UK), Donald research papers and case studies of successful is now working with the City of Kabul to explore Kaberuka (Special Envoy for the African Union’s reform. This growing body of knowledge forms the options for addressing informality of housing in the Peace Fund) and Adnan Khan (Research and Policy basis for further in-country work. city. Director at the International Growth Centre), and Cities that Work is led by a council that provides academic directors Tim Besley (London School of strategic leadership and direction for the initiative. STUDYING AFRICAN ECONOMIES Economics and Political Science) and Sir Paul Current members include Ed Glaeser (Harvard Collier (Blavatnik School of Government), the University) as chair, Sir Paul Collier (Blavatnik commission published its final report in April 2018. School of Government), Mayor Patricia de Lille (Cape Town), Astrid Haas (IGC), Nasir Javed (Urban Unit, Lahore), Jonathan Leape (IGC), Jennifer Musisi (Kampala Capital City Authority) and Tony Venables (University of Oxford).

Cities that Work manager Astrid Haas was invited Image: Jennifer Musisi, Executive Director of the Kampala Capital City Authority. by the Ministry of Interior of Somaliland to co- chair their municipal finance taskforce to look at This year, the Centre for the Study of African reforming the municipal finance system in the City Economies (CSAE) at the Blavatnik School of of Hargeisa. As part of this, a workshop was Government has been involved in several multi- delivered in partnership with the Kampala Capital Image: two of the co-chairs, David Cameron and partner initiatives, under the direction of Stefan City Authority (KCCA), drawing on their Donald Kaberuka, at the commission’s launch event. Dercon. CSAE has been awarded funding to successful experiences in reforming municipal support the Oxford Martin Programme on African HOW TO BUILD CITIES THAT WORK revenue administration. governance, which brings together six Oxford Cities that Work, a new initiative from the In February 2018, Jennifer Musisi, the executive departments, and aims to discover what is holding International Growth Centre (IGC) based at the director of the KCCA and council member of back job creation and economic transformation. Blavatnik School of Government, brings together Cities that Work, delivered the opening talk at the CSAE is also collaborating with the Department of policymakers, researchers, and urban practitioners World Urban Forum on enhancing municipal Psychiatry to lay the groundwork for a research to guide urban policy. finances in cities. Cities that Work also worked with programme on adolescent mental health. Cutting-edge economic research on urbanisation is the World Bank on the Sierra Leone Economic CSAE has secured funding to extend its paired with the knowledge of policymakers and Report on Freetown, presented to the President programme on behavioural interventions for a after the election. 12 further three years to behavioural challenges for fraught context, the Global Economic Governance understand how the world can make the new poverty and governance research. The research Programme (GEG) is fostering research and international climate architecture work. team has worked with 8,200 respondents in 416 debate on how to make the global economy Working with exceptional scholar-practitioners villages in Western Kenya for the multi-arm cluster inclusive and sustainable, with a particular focus on from developing countries randomised trial, testing whether behavioural developing countries. Each year GEG hosts exceptional early-career interventions can make anti-poverty schemes more Navigating global banking standards academics from developing countries, providing an efective. In a flagship research project funded by the ESRC opportunity for dedicated research time and CSAE has hosted outreach events, notably ‘The and DFID, Emily Jones is leading a team of professional development. This year GEG is future of social assistance in Africa and beyond’ in researchers from the UK, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and delighted to host Maria Gwynn from Paraguay, June 2017 with James Ferguson, anthropologist Vietnam in eleven countries across Africa, Latin who works on international investment arbitration; and ethnographer at Stanford University whose America and Asia. GEG has conducted extensive Folashade Soule Kondou from Benin, who works on latest work looks at the expansion of welfare in fieldwork, including interviews with more than 200 Africa-China infrastructure negotiations; Biniam Southern Africa, and Paul Niehaus, founder of government ofcials, politicians and banking sector Bedasso from Ethiopia, who works on state GiveDirectly, an organisation that pioneered direct representatives. The research shows how financial capacity; and Lisa Benjamin from the Bahamas, delivery of unconditional cash transfers in East interdependence is decisively shaping regulatory who works on climate negotiations. Africa. The CSAE conference in March 2018 decisions, and in unexpected ways. Focusing on the Negotiating Brexit attracted over 500 delegates. implementation of Basel banking standards, GEG In the wake of Brexit, Emily Jones has conducted show how interdependence provides powerful GLOBAL ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE negotiation skills training for UK government incentives for large domestic banks, politicians, and PROGRAMME ofcials involved in trade negotiations. She has also regulatory agencies to champion the provided input in UK trade policy, particularly on Global economic governance is at a critical implementation of the latest international the ways in which the UK can support developing juncture. Many citizens in Western countries are standards. This poses challenges, as international countries. This work was funded through an ESRC questioning the benefits of globalisation, and standards are not designed with developing Impact Acceleration grant. She has since joined the Brexit, as well as the US election, are commonly countries in mind, and it suggests a reform of government’s Trade for Development Expert interpreted as a revolt by the citizens ‘left behind’ standard-setting institutions is needed to ensure Advisory Group. by globalisation. After decades of serving as the developing countries are better represented. backbone of a rules-based global order, the United States, under President Donald Trump, is touting Tackling climate change from the bottom up an “America first” agenda that extols narrow When the world’s most powerful governments are economic nationalism and distrust of international failing to take the lead, others can galvanise action. institutions and agreements. In a stunning role Thomas Hale is working with local governments, reversal, it has fallen to China’s leaders to the private sector and civil society organisations to champion globalisation, at least rhetorically. In this 13 Institute; Manish Kumar Shrivastava, The Energy and The global governance of antimicrobial resistance: NEW RESEARCH Resources Institute, New Delhi; and Kennedy Mbeva, a one-health approach African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi. Lead researchers: Dean Ngaire Woods, Professor of Funded by: Volkswagen Foundation Global Economic Governance; and Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, University of Trust, distrust and the legitimacy of government Edinburgh Trust in government has collapsed to record lows in The following research was awarded funding in Funded by: Wellcome Trust 2017/18. recent times, precipitating populist events around the world. This distrust is considered worrying: it Building a research community on public finance A new economics and management corrodes the very legitimacy of government, even Delving into the philosophical and methodological if democratic. This hypothesis, however, goes Through a series of four workshops, this project foundations of economics and social science, unexamined in political theory. Drawing upon seeks to build a community of researchers on viewing the economy as a reflexive complex sociology, psychology, law and political science, this public finance and public management in adaptive system. The research insights will be project fills this gap, providing the first general developing countries, with a view to eventually applied to key societal and public policy challenges, theory of how trust and distrust condition our establishing links with the wider academic body and including financial system stability, economic obligations – to each other and government. policymakers. This focus is solving the management inequality, economic growth, and sustainability. challenges faced by government bureaucracies in Lead researcher from the School: Nikolas Kirby, developing countries. Lead researcher from the School: Eric Beinhocker, Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy Lead researcher from the School: Martin Williams, Professor of Practice (Public Policy) Funded by: Leverhulme Trust (Early Career Associate Professor in Public Management Funded by: Open Society Foundation Fellowship) Funded by: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Strengthening non-state climate action in the Training for productivity: an experimental Exploring the potential for behavioural activation Global South evaluation of civil service reform in Ghana to facilitate economic wellbeing in adolescents in This project will radically increase our This project aims to improve the capacity of the low- and middle-income countries understanding of climate action on the ground in Ghanaian Civil Service by designing, implementing Adolescents in a range of low- and middle-income developing countries, with a focus on cities, states/ and evaluating training. The project also studies counties, and major companies in India and Kenya countries are particularly susceptible to impaired how civil servants come up with ideas to enhance cognitive and emotional development. This project with a view to assessing, and increasing, the productivity, how and whether they propose these efectiveness of such action. Policy brings together economics and psychology to to their superiors and colleagues, and why some explore whether behavioural activation therapy recommendations for governments, donors, UN ideas are adopted and others rejected. agencies, and other stakeholders constitute a (BA) can be applied to communities where Lead researcher from the School: Martin Williams, crucial component of the project. socioeconomic deprivation afects key life Associate Professor in Public Management developments. As BA helps people to take action Lead researchers: Thomas Hale, Associate Professor in Funded by: International Growth Centre and DFID to implement intentions, it might ofer better Public Policy (Global Public Policy), Blavanik School Economic Development and Institutions Award economic outcomes than life skills and working of Government; Sander Chan, German Development memory. 14 Lead researchers: Stefan Dercon, Professor of with a view to changing the thinking and actions of Co-directors from the School: Stefan Dercon, Economic Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; key policymakers in Africa and beyond. Professor of Economic Policy; and Stephen Peel, and Alan Stein, Department of Psychiatry, University Co-directors: Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Visiting Fellow of Practice of Oxford Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; and Ricardo Lead researchers from the School: Stefan Dercon, Funded by: Wellcome Trust (Institutional Strategic Soares de Oliveira, Department of Politics and Professor of Economic Policy, and Nicolas Lippolis, Support Fund) International Relations, University of Oxford Research and Policy Ofcer Post-carbon transition research programme Lead researchers from the School: Emily Jones, Funded by: Centre for the Study of African Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Economic Economies The models used to explore the transition to a Governance); Clare Leaver, Associate Professor of carbon-free world are unrealistic. Consequently, ESRC Impact Acceleration awards: Economics and Public Policy; and Martin Williams, they overestimate the costs of action and • Building a concept of public integrity: engaging Associate Professor in Public Management underestimate the value of a clean technology practitioners - Nikolas Kirby, Research Fellow in Funded by: Oxford Martin School transition. Relying on insights from history, political Philosophy and Public Policy science and behavioural psychology, this project Rethinking African paths to industrial • Exploring and visualising the process of provides a new complex-systems-based economic development in the 21st century legislation - Ruth Dixon, Research Fellow model allowing for a more realistic understanding Historical experience has shown that development John Fell Oxford University Press Research Fund of the potential benefits of the transition towards a of a large and productive industrial sector raises a awards: post-carbon society. country’s living standards. In most cases, this • Growth mindset at scale - Ingo Outes, Co-directors: Doyne Farmer, Department of process required purposeful government Departmental Lecturer Mathematics, University of Oxford; and Cameron intervention, in collaboration with the private Hepburn, Smith School of Enterprise and the sector. However, implementing an industrial • Collaborative public service provision in English Environment, University of Oxford strategy is difcult and can easily fail, particularly in local government: comparing services, Lead researchers from the School: Thomas Hale, developing countries with unstable politics and low partnerships and council "centrality" - Thomas Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public state capacity. Elston, Associate Professor in Public Administration Policy); and Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social This project seeks to reset the policy agenda on • Discrimination, diversity and organisational Psychology and Public Policy, University of Oxford industrialisation, synthesising existing knowledge productivity - Anandi Mani, Professor of Funded by: Oxford Martin School and spelling out its policy implications for low- Behavioural Economics and Public Policy income countries in Africa. Drawing on diferent African governance research programme • Populism, violence and breakdown of social disciplines, the project has built a framework for The economic, social and political governance norms - Julien Labonne, Associate Professor in thinking about industrial policy that incorporates challenges for sub-Saharan Africa remain immense. Economics and Public Policy historical lessons and the latest academic thinking, This project aims to create new knowledge from • Cash transfers and role models: evaluating the while accounting for country diversity. This across disciplines on what holds back job creation impact on women’s empowerment in Kenya - framework should assist policymakers in the design and economic transformation, as well as the Mahreen Mahmud, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of industrial policy. delivery of quality social services and infrastructure, in Development Economics 15 Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the transnational, and equally to note the failures of AWARDS AND NEW British Empire (CBE) in New Year’s Honours 2018 the international institutions the world relies on to BOOKS Dean Ngaire Woods was appointed Commander of address such challenges. Editors Thomas Hale, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire Blavatnik School of Government, and David Held, (CBE) in the New Year's Honours 2018 for services Durham University, explore pathways through and to higher education and public policy. beyond gridlock.

NEW BOOKS The Philosophy of Trust (OUP, 2017) Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System Trust is central to our social lives, underpinning (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017) both epistemic and practical cooperation, editors The Economist’s Book of the Year 2017, this is an Thomas Simpson, Blavatnik School of Government, eye-opening account of the migrant crisis which and Paul Faulkner, University of Shefeld, collate AWARDS shows why our global refugee regime is broken and essays on trust that develop a previously neglected Fellowship of the British Academy how it can be fixed. Alexander Betts, Department philosophical area and ofer a foundation for future of International Development at the University of Sir Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public research. Oxford, and Sir Paul Collier, Blavatnik School of Policy, has been elected to the British Academy. An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Norton, Government, set out an alternative vision that can Sir Paul received this honour for his research on 2018) empower refugees to help themselves, contribute the economic development of Africa; the causes of Rather than telling students what to think about to their host societies, and even rebuild their state fragility and implications for public policy; the moral issues, this textbook by Jonathan Wolf, countries of origin. management of natural resources; and the Blavatnik School of Government, teaches students management of urbanisation. Aid Paradoxes in Afghanistan: Building and how to think for themselves. Using real-world Citizenship Award from Foundation P&V Undermining the State (Routledge, 2018) examples and vivid illustrations drawn from other Sir Paul Collier won this year’s Citizenship Award The relationship between aid and state-building is disciplines, it challenges preconceived notions from Foundation P&V, awarded to people, highly complex and the efects of aid on weak about morality and demonstrates why ethics initiatives or organisations who invest in the states depend on donors’ interests, aid modalities matters. and the recipient’s pre-existing institutional and building of an open, democratic, tolerant and Readings in Moral Philosophy (Norton, 2018) inclusive society in an exemplary way. sociopolitical conditions. Postdoctoral researcher Nematullah Bizhan argues that, in the case of A companion to Jonathan Wolf’s introductory Companion of the Order of St Michael and St Afghanistan, the country inherited conditions are textbook, or a standalone book in its own right, this George (CMG) not favourable for state-building. reader, edited by Jonathan Wolf, provides a more Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy was diverse selection of philosophers and ethical issues appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael Beyond Gridlock (Polity, 2017) than any other book of its kind. It ofers an ideal and St George (CMG) for services to economics It is now conventional wisdom to see the great collection of important readings in moral theory and international development. policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently and compelling issues in applied ethics. 16 CHAPTER 3 TEACHING TO ADDRESS POLICY CHALLENGES

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18 Options modules Core module Two modules from Policy Summer Project Challenge II a selection of 20+ Six+ weeks with a module topics that host organisation or HILARY TERM Applied Policy modules focus on contemporary TRINITY TERM researching policy issues (9 WEEKS) Behavioural Science policy issues (8 WEEKS) Private Finance Student-led and Negotiations social events Communications Arabic, African, Chinese Professional Skills Programme (all year) Applied Policy modules

cultural celebrations ( 10 WEEKS 10 Public Budgeting SUMMER New Year celebration UK Public Policy seminar series (including Lord Gus Managing Professional Mindfulness and yoga O’Donnell, Jon Cunlife, Relationships Interdisciplinary Philip Rycroft) cross-departmental event Faculty research seminars ) ) Alumni event ‘Political Leadership and Management Campaigning 101’ Development workshops Student-led talks (TEDx Mentoring programme Student-led and style) on UN WFP, 8 WEEKS

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HILARY TERM HILARY social events medicine, technology Dame Margaret Hodge, TRINITY TERM ( and more WEEKS 9 Dame Frances Cairncross) MPP Book and ‘Pizza and Philosophy’ nights MPP Conference Spring Soiree Policy Slam Cake and Corruption ) ( 2 MONTHS 2 COURSE SBS/MPP Debate END OF Israel trip

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EASTER NOVEMBER VACATION (5 WEEKS) ) Our Master of Public Policy (MPP) is an intensive • Behavioural Science and Decision Making with MASTER OF PUBLIC one-year graduate degree that ofers a distinctive Professor Eldar Shafir, William Stewart Tod POLICY (MPP) approach to learning about public policy. In Professor of Psychology and Public Afairs at 2017/18 we welcomed 113 students from 53 Princeton University countries who are current and aspiring leaders with • Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy a commitment to public service. with Niron Hashai, Albertson-Waltuch Chair in Business Administration, Academic Director of Some innovations on the MPP in the past year the Asper Center for Entrepreneurship and include: Innovation, and Head of the Strategy and CASE STUDY CENTRE Entrepreneurship Area at the School of Business Established in 2017 by Karthik Ramanna, who was Administration at the Hebrew University of awarded the international Case Centre’s Jerusalem Outstanding Case-Writer prize in 2017, our new • Building State Capability with Professor Lant Case Centre develops real-world case studies to aid Pritchett, senior fellow at the Center for Global learning. These form a distinctive element of the Development and Professor of the Practice of MPP, furthering its strong focus on applied policy. International Development at Harvard Kennedy They are also available on request to other School of Government organisations that are committed to improving the • Contemporary Military Strategy with Professor practice of governance. Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King’s College London. From banking reform to healthcare, the cases use real situations to illustrate complex policy Fireside Chat series challenges. They help students sharpen the The Fireside Chat series is a way of encouraging analytical, decision-making and implementation students to learn directly from the School’s visitors. skills needed in governments across the world. The format allows 15 minutes’ speaking time for the visitor followed by 45 minutes of moderated Q&A. DRAWING ON OUR VISITORS Fireside Chats included: The School attracts visiting scholars and practitioners whose research interests and • Shan Huang, Associate Managing Editor of professional experience can ofer students Caixin Media: Do the recent constitutional exceptional insight. amendments in China mean a more assertive and Image: MPP students at their graduation event at the aggressive Chinese foreign posture? School in November 2017. Electives • Dr Eviatar Matania, former Head of the National Examples of electives taught by visitors to the Cyber Bureau, Ofce of the Prime Minister of School in 2017/18 include: 20 Israel: Cyber security and democracy - the way the Australian government and World Vision in forward Cambodia. • Ben Gummer, former Minister for the Cabinet One of the year’s innovations was to give students, Ofce and Paymaster General of the United particularly those with substantial professional Kingdom: Democracy will die unless we deliver experience, the opportunity to carry out research • Professor Jim Morone, Brown University: What on a public policy issue of particular professional hath Trump wrought? Health policy nihilism and interest under the supervision of an Oxford right wing populism in historical perspective academic. • Professor Mark Moore, Harvard Kennedy School: On becoming a public policy professional • Professor Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University and National Bureau of Economic Research: Can business plausibly play a significant role in solving climate change?

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Admitting students from all over the world means Image: Alison French on her Summer Project with that they arrive with very diferent levels of skills in World Vision, pictured on Chiso Mountain in written English. In addition to CV and letter- Cambodia. Her report on the online sexual writing sessions, students are now ofered a series exploitation of children in Thailand was published by of writing classes to develop their skills, including World Vision. report writing, writing for diferent audiences and writing opinion pieces.

SUMMER PROJECT The Summer Project is a six-week (minimum) work placement with an organisation engaged in some aspect of policy work. Its purpose is to enable students to apply their learning to real-life policy. The 2016 MPP class carried out placements with 80 diferent individuals and organisations in 64 Image: Emily Burke, Alex Eastwood, Harj Narulla countries, including the UK Cabinet Ofce, the and Hamish McKenzie outside the Australian UK Department for International Development, government Ofce of the Prime Minister and the Ofce of the Prime Minister and Caabinet in Cabinet. 21 Our students engage in a wide variety of activities • Mohamed Fairoz Ahmad was awarded the STUDENT SUCCESS across the University, Oxford and beyond, Outstanding Young Alumni Award by the enriching their experiences. National University of Singapore. • Salim Youssef Salama addressed Chatham House • Felipe Rigoni Lopes was nominated as a candidate on ‘Demystifying the Syrian conflict’ for Federal Congress in Brazil. • Phyu Phyu Thin Zaw translated George RR • Robert Mwanamanga was invited to present his Martin’s A Game of Thrones into Burmese: this award-winning paper, ‘Does aid promote growth? was published by WE Distribution, and in January Evidence from Malawi’, at the International 2018 became their second-best-selling book. Consulting Economists Association (ICEA) in London. • Katrina Usita undertook a placement with the Ofcial Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF). Her project title was ‘Gender balance in pension funds: closing the pensions gender gap’. As a result of the placement, OMFIF published Katrina’s work in their publication ‘The Bulletin’ and she continues to work for OMFIF as an economist. • Xiheng Jiang spoke on a panel at a recent OECD Image: Salim Youssef Salama addressing Chatham conference on ‘South-South co-operations in a House (image source Chatham House). new development context: towards a consensus STAFF SUCCESS agenda for action’. • Francisco Tapia represented the Chilean Embassy The School’s front of house team, Anne Wynne at the House of Commons. and Anda Trifan, won the Best Support Staf award in the University of Oxford Student-Led Teaching • Smadar Yaniv and Adil Shamji organised another Awards. They were nominated by the Blavatnik ‘Policy Slam’, an event established by the School students for their outstanding support and previous MPP class, which welcomes a group of contribution to student life. 13- and 14-year-olds from a local state school to the Blavatnik School. • Emmanuel Taiwo co-chaired of this year’s Oxford Image: MPP students at the end of year celebration. Africa Conference, which is hosted at the School.

22 MPP STUDENT Key facts 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 RECRUITMENT (anticipated) Total number of applications 485 487 522 583 711 774 793

Total number of countries and 85 97 90 102 104 109 106 territories

Initial number of ofers 55 98 112 185 185 185 190

Initial ofer to application ratio 11.3% 20.2% 21.5% 31% 26% 23.9% 24%

Acceptances 39 62 73 117 124 113 120

Accept to ofer ratio 70.9% 63.3% 65.2% 63.2% 67% 61% 63%

Accept to application ratio 8.0% 12.8% 14.0% 20% 17.4% 14.6% 15%

Total number of incoming students 38 64 75 117 124 113 120 Applicant diversity The diversity of students applying to and gaining Final number of countries and places on the programme remains high. The MPP territories (including second 19 (20) 39 48 (52) 54 (59) 65 (70) 50 (53) 50+ Class of 2017 includes 113 students from 53 nationalities) countries (including second nationalities). We now Youngest student 21 years 21 years 21 years 21 years 21 years 22 years 21 years have students and alumni from all G20 countries, and this year five new countries are represented in Oldest student 42 years 46 years 41 years 51 years 50 years 46 years 45 years the 2017 class: Average (mean) age 26 years 27 years 28 years 29 years 28 years 29 years 29 years • Croatia • Kyrgyzstan (two students) Largest (mode) age group 24 years 24 years 27 years 28 years 25 years 27 years 25 years • Sudan Male to female ratio 19:19 32:30 38:37 66:51 65:59 60:53 60:60 • Tanzania • East Timor (Timor-Leste) - the first ever student Percentage of class fully funded 50%+ 50%+ 50%+ 50%+ 50%+ 50%+ 50%+ from East Timor in the University of Oxford’s 900-year history Number of colleges 22 30 30 29 29 29 30

23 Regions Age spread in the MPP Class of 2017 15 4% 5% 9% 10% 12 9 16% 13% 6 14% 13% % of class 3

9% 14% 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 13% 13% Age 9% Age spread 2012-17 20% 15 14% 16% 12 9 6 % of class 3

46% 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 37% 41% 37% Age Gender split 2012-17

50% 48% 49% 44% 48% 46%

13% 12% 9% 10% 50% 52% 51% 56% 52% 54% All applicants All students Class of 2016 Class of 2017

Africa Asia Europe Latin America and the Caribbean 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Northern America Oceania Male Female 24 ALUMNI ALUMNI : WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 2016 alumni working in each region 2016 alumni working in each sector

3% 10% 8% 26% 2% 5% 23% 3% 20% There are now 416 members of the School’s alumni 8% community, and a further 177 associate alumni from the School’s executive education programme. 9% Building lifelong relationships with and between 24% 23% alumni continues to be at the centre of the 36% School’s vision.

The School’s Online Community Platform Caribbean Central America Oceania Not for profit Not yet determined/don’t know (community.bsg.ox.ac.uk) was launched in Middle East South America Africa Academia/research Private sector North America Europe Asia Government and public sector November 2017 to enable alumni to connect with each other and remain engaged with the School. All alumni working in each region 323 MPP alumni are already using the platform, All alumni working in each sector where they can connect geographically, by class, by company or industry/sector, and share news and 3% events. At a regional level, 21 hubs have been 6% 24% 1% 5% 12% established, with a further four being developed. 5% 33% 10% The alumni community came together in 9% September 2017 to celebrate five years of the MPP, travelling from countries including Qatar, 16% 14% Colombia, Australia, Hong Kong, Nigeria and 33% Israel. After policy-focused workshops during the day, the event culminated in a gala dinner at which 29%

Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England Caribbean Central America Oceania Not for profit Not yet determined/don’t know and Blavatnik School International Advisory Board Middle East South America Africa Academia/research Private sector North America Europe Asia member, gave a speech. Government and public sector

25 ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS focus on making a bigger impact Steven Wang, 29, MPP 2013, China through policy. Civil servants in Pakistan have great potential to Steven Wang is Founder and Chairperson of Yiqiao make a diference, and the MPP China, an initiative that places top Chinese could enhance their knowledge of graduates and young professionals in NGOs and policymaking best practices.” social organisations across the country. Its work is supported by the Gates Foundation and has been Vivian Grassi Sampaio, 33, MPP 2014, Brazil recognised by Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in China. Under Vivian’s leadership, the Central Bank of “I’m very grateful to have had the Brazil’s Administrative Process Division has experience at the Blavatnik become one of the most productive and uses an School. Now I’m much more approach based in theory and practice. Vivian’s confident about being a bridge greatest success since completing the MPP has across diferent sectors, between been the approval of the bill of law sanctioning those who want to make a financial institutions and introducing alternative diference and organisations that make this dispute settlement instruments. The MPP happen, and between China and the world. This is transformed Vivian’s whole approach to her work. also what the Blavatnik School is doing. There’s “Before, I was more attached to formality and much potential for the social sector in China and I following processes, but now I seek decisions based encourage other School alumni to learn more, get on evidence and results. After the involved and work on building this global platform MPP I feel more capable of together.” elaborating creative solutions to Itrat Zahara, 34, MPP 2016, Pakistan bring innovation to the government environment, which tends to be Itrat serves in the Finance Division of the more resistant to changes. I can Government of Pakistan where she assists the also see more clearly what needs to be changed, Secretary of Finance on policy matters relating to and how the roots of policies are often cultural, the Executive Committee of National Economic which makes it harder to reform them.” Council, the Economic Coordination Committee and the Federal Cabinet. The opportunity to frame her own experiences in Image: alumni at the celebration of five years of the “There are a lot of people in the government sector Brazil in comparison to others was a major benefit MPP. who are interested in the course. I tell them about of the highly international and diverse MPP class. my positive experience and how the MPP helped me

26 “It’s an environment where you can place your been surprised by how often he comes across ideas his work. However, it is not merely the course country in relation to others, and you start to feel discussed on the MPP. content that he considers to have been beneficial. optimistic that you can make it better.” “Sometimes you’re not aware of “Equally important is the personal Edison Broce Urriola, 27, MPP 2015, Panama all the tools and frameworks you level outside the classroom, where Edison is currently the youngest Member of got from the programme, but learning continued and Parliament in the Panama National Assembly. He they arise in diferent contexts, friendships were made. At the was elected as an independent in 2014 and joined in conversations you have. They School there is a genuine the MPP course in 2015. In the 2019 Panamanian become part of your hardware.” commitment to serving others elections, Edison will run again as an independent and trying to make the world a Charles Deutscher, 32, MPP 2012, Myanmar candidate. better place. It was a privilege to learn from the Charles is Head of Ofce for the ICRC’s best.” “I learned so much on the MPP. I operations in Eastern and Southern Shan State in acquired knowledge, a network Myanmar. A corporate lawyer desiring a change of Rose Macharia, 32, MPP 2015, Kenya and skills that helped me become direction, Charles Deutscher joined the first class Rose’s work as Chief of Staf in Kenya’s Ministry of a better politician, not only in of MPP students in 2012. Humanitarian work Education's Cabinet Ofce, the country’s largest Panama but worldwide. Being at became Charles’ new focus, and since the MPP he ministry, has continued to expose her to the Oxford was a great achievement has worked primarily for the International practical and rigorous application and interface of for me. I now have so much experience and Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in crisis areas politics and public policy that she experienced knowledge. The course was important because my in Uganda, South Sudan and Afghanistan. whilst on the MPP at the Blavatnik School. Rose inspiration and references are from all around the works with the University Education, Vocational The broad nature of the MPP gave him the world, and I can apply this to domestic politics." and Technical Training and Post Training Skills foundations which he has since built upon in his Development for national development. Rafael Pastor, 44, MPP 2014, Chile career, preparing him to deal with the inherent A trained lawyer, Rafael Pastor is now the Director moral and ethical trade-ofs of the humanitarian “The applied modules equipped of the Law School at the Universidad Central, sector, and understand the economic incentives me with the capacity to sit in Chile. He joined the MPP in 2014 with extensive which can arise in a conflict environment. The sector budgeting teams without experience of the public sector, having served as strong negotiation and communication skills feeling overwhelmed or lost. The Chief of Staf for the Minister of Justice. developed on the course have helped Charles with communications module allows prioritising in the face of conflicting demands; the me to communicate with Immediately after the MPP, Rafael took up the use of evidence and evaluation in the policymaking efciency and impact. The MPP position of President of the Patent and Trademark component taught him to focus on has made my job in the Kenyan government a lot Appeals Court. As Law School Director, he writes methodologically rigorous results when shaping the more enjoyable and easier!” about and teaches courses on law and economics, ICRC’s strategy. Charles often revisits the as well as public policy implementation. He has academic and professional aspects of the MPP in 27 Angela Anzola, 35, MPP 2014, Colombia “The MPP organised my thinking “I felt that we were treating the After the MPP Angela held the position of High by giving me frameworks to use. symptoms of the problem, Counsellor for Victims’ Rights, Peace and Now, when I’m making changes rather than tackling the root Reconciliation for the Mayor of Bogotá, working on with senior leaders, I’m aware that cause. It became clear to me policies to aid those afected by armed conflict. A we need to build in time for that multinational tax particular highlight for her during that time was the reflection, evaluating along the avoidance, combined with establishment of a public fund to give access to way. As I progress, I hope to bring inadequate laws, and weak tax higher education to victims of armed conflict. these tools into my work even more.” administration, was preventing governments from Angela is now the head of the District Secretariat generating revenue. I joined the MPP to get a Adjusting to studying after a long time away from for Women’s Afairs. An understanding of the better understanding of policymaking process, so university was a challenge, but the transition was importance of science in all areas of policy is one that I would be better placed to find ways in which eased by the supportive nature of the class. way in which Angela benefited from the course. countries can ensure that taxes from oil, gas and “It was a big adjustment. All the study skills and mining organisations are collected and used for the “Many public servants don’t have habits were still there, but it was extremely public good.” detailed knowledge of global challenging after working at a career for 20 years. issues such as climate change, The Blavatnik School faculty was a big draw for However, it was a cohesive social experience, and which should be at the top of Alexandra, and she was able to have regular very diferent from my undergraduate degree. It’s everyone’s agenda. In my work meetings with experts in the field. The course also such an enriching environment – you miss that with women’s groups, I aim to provided her with the academic and research afterwards.” keep environmental issues in mind foundations required for her career move, as well as whenever possible. We are helping Alexandra Readhead, 31, MPP 2014, UK an understanding of the policymaking process. women have an impact on how their city is defined, Alexandra is a technical advisor to the “The research I undertook during the Summer while remaining sensitive to the impact on the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining (IMF), a Project set me up to change jobs and do what I do environment.” global body with 63 members, and was formerly now. I also found it valuable to learn about the Stephen Belongia, 46, MPP 2015, USA Chief of Staf in the President’s Ofce, diferent aspects of policymaking; it gave me a Government of Sierra Leone. She leads a joint After finishing the MPP in 2015, Stephen was soon context in which to situate more detailed technical programme with the OECD to address tax base promoted within the FBI to Assistant Special knowledge.” erosion and profit shifting in the mining sector in Agent in Charge, leading the field ofce in Tampa, developing countries. Alexandra has also taught on Enrique Zapata Perez, 33, MPP 2012, Mexico Florida. In addition to his extensive professional the Executive Course on Oil, Gas and Mining Enrique is General Director of Open Data at the experience prior to the course, Stephen was able to Governance at the School. Ofce of the President of Mexico. His decision to gain new skills on the MPP, which he believes will apply for the MPP course came five years after help him further his career.

28 completing trade negotiations with North America The understanding of the policymaking process in the Ministry of Economy. gained on the MPP has been particularly relevant to Saim’s work at POLITICO, and he has built on “Studying was a way to take a the knowledge acquired at the Blavatnik School. step forward in my career. The course gave me mental “In the Politics of Policymaking module, we looked frameworks to build on, and at the various actors involved in the process. Now, I I’ve been applying them since analyse EU legislation and the diferent stages it then; not just in my goes through, and try to understand what it means professional life, but more generally in how I for people, policies and industries.” approach problems and address them.” Another aspect of the course that he has found Although he had intended to continue his work in useful for his current role is the focus on science. the Ministry of Economy after the MPP, an “I was surprised by how directly unmissable opportunity arose with the change of relevant it has been. Here at government in Mexico. Enrique joined the team of POLITICO I have reported on Open Data, a new institution which has transport, fuels and scientific responsibility for the coordination of a national regulations, and the theories digital strategy. and strategies we discussed on “This was something very new in Mexico. At first, the course, such as the precautionary principle, people didn’t see how data was relevant to have been helpful for understanding the issues. In government. We came up against opposition, but general, I expanded my knowledge base on the we proved that digital is part of the solution to course; both inside and outside the classroom. My many policymaking issues. This groundbreaking world was a lot smaller before.” approach to innovation in governance paved the way for a new way of thinking and delivering better services to citizens. Today, we are global leaders in all data rankings.”

Saim Saeed, 27, MPP 2015, Belgium Saim Saeed is a Transport Reporter at POLITICO Europe, a European afairs online newspaper based in Brussels.

29 DOCTORAL STUDENTS DPHIL CLASS OF 2017 encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Ranil Dissanayake Commerce (RSA). Ranil is researching how Jose Maria Valenzuela Robles bureaucracies make decisions. His Linares research builds on almost 15 years Jose Maria’s studies the role that of experience as an economist and bureaucratic, domestic and policymaker in the governments of international networks of the United Kingdom, Malawi and Tanzania. expertise play in enabling government to push decarbonisation faster and at a Christina Economy lower cost. Christina is interested in the diferent ways that government James Walsh There are now 21 students from 14 diferent provides social programmes, and countries enrolled in the DPhil in Public Policy James studies issues related to how it can do so more efectively programme, with a further six new DPhil students behavioural public policy. He is for vulnerable populations. to be admitted in 2018. From October 2018, there testing an intervention that provides psycho-social supports will be 16 men and 11 women on the course. Vafa Ghazavi to unemployed youth in Addis Vafa’s research is on responsibility Pepper Culpepper is the Ababa, Ethiopia; conducting diagnostic work to for global injustices. Rather than DPhil Coordinator. He identify threats to social stability between refugees just looking at who caused a teaches the Research and the host population in Lebanon; and particular harm, he is studying how Development Seminar, conducting survey experiments to increase the we share responsibility to reform which is a year-long course accuracy of data on forcibly displaced people in the systems that enable and perpetuate it. that is mandatory for the Africa. first-year doctoral students. He also organises the Aaron Maniam SUBMITTED THESES Research in Progress Seminar, which provides a Aaron’s research interests are the We now have two students who have submitted and forum for second and third year students to efects of technology on public are awaiting their viva examinations: present their work. administration, policy formulation, • Faustian bargaining in a regime complex: IMF- DPhil students regularly attend the Faculty deliberative democracy, ethics and RFA cooperation in Europe (2008-2012) – Research Seminar as well as others that take place citizenship. He was identified by Ivaylo Iaydjiev (Class of 2014) across the University. They also take courses in the World Economic Forum as a Young Global • Essays on school choice: empirical evidence from other departments, taking advantage of the many Leader in January 2013. In June 2015, he was implementation of India's National School Choice academic strengths of Oxford. appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society for the policy – Vijay Kumar (Class of 2015)

30 CHAPTER 4 ENGAGING WITH GOVERNMENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

Participants of the fifth annual Executive Course on Oil, Gas and Mining Governance. application of the research to current policy Our GO Lab continues to provide research insights DEEPENING RELATIONS challenges. to the UK government on new and better tools for decision-making around outcomes-based WITH GOVERNMENTS We have created a popular seminar series at the commissioning for the public sector. AND LEADING School on UK public policymaking. Senior figures from politics, the UK Civil Service, international BRAZIL POLICYMAKERS organisations, civil society, law and the media have This year, Brazil will hold its national elections in the shared their insights into how policy is actually wake of the most serious corruption scandals that made. These have included Sir Jeremy Heywood have afected its political system. To tackle this, we (Cabinet Secretary), Helen Mountfield QC convened the first edition of our Integrity and (Matrix Chambers), Sir Suma Chakrabarti Values in Government programme in partnership (European Bank for Reconstruction and with the Lemann Foundation, engaging high-profile Development ) and Laura Kuenssberg (BBC). policymakers from across the Brazilian political In 2018, we announced the creation of a new scene in a course focused on integrity in public life. Permanent Secretary Fellowship scheme. The School’s mission drives us to establish Developed in conjunction with Sir Jeremy productive and meaningful relationships with Heywood, and with the financial support of the policymakers all over the world. Beecroft Trust, this establishes year-long fellowships. Our 2018 fellows are Leslie Evans UNITED KINGDOM (Scottish government) and Sir Chris Wormald We have a particular opportunity to establish links (Department of Health and Social Care). Image: Dean Ngaire Woods co-chaired the World with the UK Civil Service and we have been Economic Forum Latin America, in São Paulo. deepening these over the last year. We have Ahead of the UK’s general election, the School established a ‘Blavatnik School in Whitehall’ hosted ‘The Battle for Britain’. An expert panel In 2017, the Dean co-facilitated the Brazil Rising seminar series through which our faculty members comprising Lord Willetts, executive chair of the Forum at Yale University. In 2018, we will be have shared their recent applied research with Resolution Foundation and former Conservative hosting this conference at the Blavatnik School senior civil servants. Since March 2017, we have Minister, Kate Forbes MSP, member of the SNP’s with over 100 public policy participants, supported held four seminars, covering behavioural science, Growth Commission, Danny Dorling, Halford by the Lemann Foundation. In March 2018, the ascribing value to life in public policy, Britain’s place Mackinder Professor of Human Geography at the Dean co-chaired the World Economic Forum Latin in the world and housing policy. Each has been University of Oxford and author of A Better America in São Paulo. Politics, and David Aaronovitch, author and attended by over 50 civil servants from Permanent In June 2018 we will deliver the first run of a new commentator, provided a lively and stimulating Secretaries to Deputy Directors and has received three-year executive education partnership with discussion on the potential election result to a excellent feedback on the insights ofered and the our partner Centro de Liderança Pública. The packed lecture theatre. Implementation in Government Programme will 32 engage participants from Centro de Liderança Finally, this spring we welcomed our first Caixin Ghana’s National Development Planning Pública in new ways of considering political Media Fellow to Oxford as part of a new Commission to create a national infrastructure leadership and policy implementation. programme that will host prominent Chinese database. journalists at the School. CHINA Over the past year the School has strengthened its engagement with China on several fronts to support our mission to improve government. We have reached a breakthrough in MPP recruitment by bringing the largest class yet Image: Oxford Africa held their annual conference at of rising stars, including ofcials at mid-career level, the School in May 2018. into the MPP. Image: Dean Ngaire Woods with Yu Keping, Dean of the School of Government, Peking University. HIGH-LEVEL GOVERNMENT DELEGATIONS The School has undertaken research partnerships Over the past year, the School has hosted a with leading Chinese academics and institutions. In AFRICA number of high-level government delegations from spring 2017 we hosted a workshop in Oxford with In 2017/18 our Commission on State Fragility, around the world. These have included: the Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Growth and Development welcomed current and Secretary of Civil Service for Hong Kong, Joshua Management, and in spring 2018 we co-hosted a former ministers and ofcials from Libya, Tunisia, Law; the head of Adaa, Saudi Arabia’s National research workshop at Peking University with the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Uganda; and Centre for Performance Measurement, Institute of State Governance. We have also signed in April 2018 the commission’s report was Husameddin Al-Madani; Chief Executive of the a memorandum of understanding with the School published. In May 2018 we welcomed the President New Zealand Department of the Prime Minister of Government at Peking University. of Ghana to the School to discuss its recommendations. and Cabinet, Andrew Kibblewhite; Graeme Head, We have worked to engage policymakers and the Public Service Commissioner for New South In September 2017, the former President of South thought leaders in China with the purpose of Wales, Australia; Peter Ho, the Senior Advisor to Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Khulu Mbatha, improving the quality of government during a time the Centre for Strategic Futures in the Prime former special advisor to the President, came to the of significant changes in China’s domestic politics Minister’s Ofce, Singapore; and the Polish School to discuss the challenges of governance in and its role in the world. Our Development Secretary of State for Digital, Krzysztof Szubert. Research Centre (DRC) fellowship programme Africa. brought seven research fellows from the State In January 2018, we hosted HE Chief Olusegun Council of the People's Republic of China think Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, to share tank to Oxford last year. During their stay of three lessons from his time as President. to twelve months, they undertook individual Throughout 2018, Martin Williams worked with the research projects with Oxford faculty. We also Head of Ghana’s Civil Service to evaluate a training welcomed our next group of Hong Kong civil programme in which close to a third of Ghana’s civil servants for an eight-week fellowship programme. service is participating. He is also supporting 33 “Natural resources are so strategic to the fortunes to provide an authoritative account of what it LEADERSHIP of countries like mine and exposure to its means to be a public institution with integrity. PROGRAMMES management promises huge transformative value “As an activist, academic, and about to become a for our growth. The course assembled the best politician, I go back to Brazil more prepared and resource persons the world can ofer. I enjoyed and aware for the challenges to come.” – participant learned from the detailed disclosure of weakness in natural resources governance from other countries.” Implementation in Government is a week-long – participant programme developed for our partner Centro de Liderança Pública from Brazil. It is incorporated CUSTOM PROGRAMMES into their 18-month-long Master’s Programme. The Hong Kong Ofcer Professional Development Thirty Brazilian changemakers came to Oxford to 2017 saw a marked increase in our engagement Programme is a custom eight-week programme for focus on a new approach to political leadership and with government leaders and senior policymakers members of the Hong Kong Special Administrative implementation skills. through the School’s leadership programmes. The Regional Government and supports future leaders School has now educated, in Oxford, more than Course modules covered leadership, narratives and in government. The School delivered this course for 190 senior leaders from the private and public communication, innovation and implementation, the fourth year during 2018, training ten mid- sectors, including former prime ministers, current managing people in times of change, and planning career civil servants. ministers, C-suite executives, parliamentarians, for the future. civil society leaders, chief economists and chiefs of Integrity and Values in Government is a three-day staf to world leaders. programme delivered for the first time in January 2018 as part of a partnership with the Lemann OPEN ENROLMENT PROGRAMMES Foundation. 35 participants, most of whom will run We delivered our Executive Course on Oil, Gas for public ofce in Brazil in October 2018, and Mining Governance for the fifth consecutive reflected upon and evaluated the moral year, with our partner organisation, the Natural commitments that inform public policy. They also Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). explored individual and structural factors that can This intensive five-day course trains policy leaders lead to systematic corruption and what can be done in the public and private sectors to better manage to counter these and build integrity in the field of and govern the extractive sector. political campaigning. The course was led by academics from the School, alongside practitioners 14 countries were represented, including Colombia, experienced in campaigning. Ghana, Guinea, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Tunisia and Ukraine and The content drew on the School's Building Integrity for the first time Guyana, Kuwait and Kyrgyzstan. programme, multi-disciplinary research that seeks

34 PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PUBLIC EVENTS • Chief Judge Patti Saris, ex-chair of the US Over the past year we have hosted over 80 public Sentencing Commission, spoke about How did the talks and discussions, ranging from conferences to United States become the world’s largest jailer? ‘in conversations’, and welcoming thousands of • Steven Vogel, Professor of Political Science at visitors to the School. Our audience continues to Berkeley, shared insight on Marketcraft: how grow worldwide thanks to our ability to livestream governments make markets work. and record our events. SOCIAL MEDIA A few highlights from 2017/18 We continue to engage a wide audience through • Joseph Nye (Former Dean of the Harvard social media. MOOC Kennedy School), Does deterrence work in Facebook We launched the second iteration of the School’s cyberspace? • Growth in Facebook likes from 13K to 14K. extremely popular Massive Open Online Course • BBC Analysis series, Democracy at Risk. Ngaire Twitter (MOOC), From Poverty to Prosperity: Woods quizzed Yascha Mounk, political theorist. • 27% increase in followers – around Understanding Economic Development, in In partnership with BBC Radio 4. five new followers per day. September 2017 and the third in May 2018. • Oxford Open Doors. We had 2,000 visitors to • Total followers now over 8.5K. 65,500 people have now enrolled on this free the School. This was hosted in partnership with • Top countries for followers: UK, US, course. Oxford Preservation Trust and Oxford University. India, Australia, and Canada. “I can use concepts and ideas for development • Avril Haines, Deputy National Security Advisor • 7.4 retweets and 26 link clicks on average per activities for Myanmar and my work. As I live in a to President Obama, spoke about the day. poor country, I cannot aford to apply for an intersection of international law. • 6K average impressions per day (number of Oxford University course, but I can study an • Philip Collins, columnist for The Times and chief people who potentially have seen our tweets). Oxford course thanks to you.” - participant speechwriter to former Prime Minister Tony YouTube MEDIA Blair, discussed What makes a great speech? • 174,000 views of our videos on YouTube in the • Richard Marles, Australia’s Shadow Defence Our faculty have provided topical comment in the past year. Minister, shared his thoughts on Asia-Pacific news media across the year, appearing in, among • 3 million minutes of our video security in the time of Trump. others, BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, The content have been watched in the Observer, BBC’s Newsnight, the Wall Street • Judge Jed Rakof spoke on the future of the past year. Journal, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, The judiciary as a check on executive power in the (NB. We also host video on other platforms so the Sunday Times, the New Statesman, The Economist, US. total viewing figures for our video content are even the Financial Times, the New York Times, Al Jazeera, • A panel of experts including the Rt Hon Andrew greater.) Nippon TV, This Day (Nigeria), BBC Radio 3, BBC Adonis, former Transport Secretary and Schools World Service, Die Freitag, and The Times. Minister, discussed How did President Maron build a new political party? And will it last? 35 inclusive nationalism, narratives of citizenship, and • Jonathan Wolf explores the questions raised for THE CHALLENGES OF engaging citizens through political communication. the future of employment by technological GOVERNMENT Panellists included Patrick O’Flynn of the UK change; and Independence Party and Damian Tambini, • Janaagraha's Srikanth Viswanathan discusses CONFERENCE Research Director of the Department of Media how technology can enable large scale citizen and Communications at LSE. participation. ‘What are the next steps towards making societies The publication also features interviews with former more resilient and trusting?’ was one of the topics US senator Russell Feingold, sociologist Arlie for the second day. Frank Mattern, Senior Partner Hochschild, and businessman Aigboje Aig- at McKinsey & Company, gave a moving yet Imoukhuede, all carried out by our Master of Public balanced account of the challenges experienced in Policy students. Some of the articles were The theme for our sixth annual flagship Challenges Germany when dealing with the refugee crisis. republished in the media. of Government Conference, co-hosted with McKinsey & Company, was ‘Bridging the gap’. It The 2018 conference will be held on 1-2 November explored how to renovate politics, public service, on the theme ‘The future of government’. economic relations and international cooperation OXFORD GOVERNMENT REVIEW to build more cohesive and trusting societies. Following on from the conversations and On 19-20 June 2017, the School welcomed over discussions of the Challenges of Government 250 participants to discuss possible solutions to the Conference, the second issue of the Oxford widening rift between citizens and the governing Government Review focused on the divide between elites. A further 800 people watched online voters and the elites. Contributors reflected on through livestreaming and recordings. Speakers and how to bridge the political, economic, and social panellists included senior public and private sector gaps that have generated a revolt against the status leaders, world-class academics and civil society quo: practitioners. • Tom Simpson and Maya Tudor discuss nationalism ‘Bridging the economic gap’ was the topic for one as part of the solution; of our first sessions, which looked into ways of • the "liberal blindness" driven by rationality and fixing capitalism with panellists Archon Fung, Ford individualism is the centre of former Israel Foundation Professor of Democracy and minister Yuli Tamir’s piece; Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School, and Arlie • Leany Barreiro Lemos, Secretary of State in Hochschild, Professor Emerita, University of Brasilia, explores the successful experience of her California. Day one also saw discussions on city;

36 The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honour THE KYOTO PRIZE AT those who have contributed significantly to the OXFORD scientific, cultural and spiritual betterment of humankind. The awards are held annually in November in Kyoto, Japan. The Laureates travel to Oxford the following May where the Blavatnik School of Government hosts them for a series of events. Image: As part of the events, Dr Takashi Mimura, 2017 Kyoto Prize Laureate for Advanced Technology, On 8-9 May 2018, the School hosted the Kyoto visited the departments of Physics, Astrophysics, and Prize at Oxford 2018 with the three 2017 Materials at the University of Oxford. Laureates: Dr Graham Farquhar, Laureate for Basic Sciences, Dr Takashi Mimura, Laureate for On the second day Laureates visited departments Advanced Technology, and Dr Richard Taruskin, at Oxford University relevant to their work. They Laureate for Arts and Philosophy. met researchers, conducted student seminars and held in-depth panel discussions. The Laureates The Laureates’ public talks attracted approximately came together at the end of day two for a 350 attendees and covered ‘Adventures across ‘Leadership panel’ lead by Professor Ngaire Woods, disciplines: studying biophysics, and observing the followed by the Kyoto Prize closing gala dinner at shaping of policies’ with Dr Farquhar, ‘My fifty Balliol College. years with the transistor’ with Dr Takashi Mimura and ‘How to win a Stalin Prize: Shostakovich’s The Kyoto Prize at Oxford is run in partnership Piano Quintet’ with Dr Richard Taruksin, whose with the Inamori Foundation. The University of talk came to a close with a rousing performance by Oxford and the Foundation share the values of the Villiers Quartet and Jeremy Young on piano. dedication to the pursuit of knowledge in the service of the public good and a commitment to Talks were livestreamed in both English and the future of our global society, which are further Japanese and to date have been viewed by over supported by the Blavatnik School of 600 people. We used the Slido app throughout Government’s mission to inspire and support better each Q&A session to engage online with our government and public policy around the world. audiences in Lagos Business School, Australian National University and the School of Public Policy Image: Richard Taruskin, 2017 Kyoto Prize Laureate and Management at Tsinghua University. for Arts and Philosophy, delivering a lecture in the School’s Inamori Forum.

37 public service leaders and government special emphasis on social justice and health care. VISITING transformation. Rodney Scott is the Director of Research and PRACTITIONERS AND Rebecca Henderson is the John and Natty International Engagement for the ACADEMICS McArthur University Professor State Services Commission of New at Harvard University, where she Zealand, and a Senior Lecturer at has a joint appointment at the the University of New South Harvard Business School. Her Wales, Australia. His current work explores how organisations research interests are performance respond to large-scale measurement and management in technological shifts. the public sector, public service motivation, and collaborative governance. Karen Jackson-Weaver is a former Academic Dean at Princeton University and the Harvard Kennedy Kent Weaver brings expertise in the understanding School of Government. Her of global pension reform. He is Each year we welcome senior academics and research centres on religion, Professor of Public Policy and practitioners to join the Blavatnik School ethics and politics with a focus Government at Georgetown community and contribute to our activities. on women’s leadership roles and University and senior fellow in the A few of our visitor highlights in 2017/18 closing the gender gap. Governance Studies Program at who teaches political theory the Brookings Institution. Loubna El Amine, Deborah Lucas is the Sloan with a particular focus on early Chinese political Distinguished Professor of Finance at MIT’s Sloan As a specialist in development thought. She is Assistant Professor School of Management, and the Director of the studies, Feng Wenmeng brings in the Political Science MIT Center for Finance and expertise on population, Department at Northwestern Policy. Her recent research has healthcare, rural development and University, interested in fostering a focused on measuring and urbanisation. Dr Feng is a more global approach to accounting for the costs and Development Research Center philosophy, ethics and politics. risks of government financial (DRC) Visiting Fellow at the Ben Gummer, former obligations. School. He has conducted field Conservative MP, Minister for the studies in China, Japan, the USA, James Morone is the John Germany and Switzerland. He was one of the seven Cabinet Ofce and Paymaster Hazen White Professor of DRC Fellows at the School this year. General, UK, brought experience Political Science and Public in the UK government and Policy at Brown University. His contributed to the School’s research focuses on how current research into the education of policy systems developed, with a 38 We seek to forge strong and efective partnerships The programme also supports a PARTNERSHIPS and relationships with organisations and individuals Visiting Fellowship from an Israeli around the world. These joint ventures contribute academic who works on innovation to our vision of supporting good government policy issues. The 2017/18 SNC throughout the world. Visiting Fellow was Niron Hashai, whose research has focused on AFRICA INITIATIVE FOR GOVERNANCE technological innovation, (AIG) diversification and the growth patterns of high The AIG partnership is focused on transforming technology firms. the performance of Africa’s public sector by supporting the injection of talent and resources THE LEMANN FOUNDATION into the sector. AIG has performed an The Blavatnik School and the Lemann Foundation extraordinary role in West Africa and there were six have a shared vision of investment in talent and AIG Scholars in the MPP Class of 2017. research coupled with pioneering, practical solutions to improve government. This partnership AIG also supports a Visiting attracts students and practitioners from Brazil’s Fellow of Practice each year. The public and private sectors to the MPP and into 2017/18 AIG Visiting Fellow was public service. Three Brazilian MPP students were Chief Justice (retired) Georgina awarded Lemann Fellowships in 2016/17. Wood. Justice Wood served as Collaboration between the Foundation and the Chief Justice of Ghana from School includes faculty visits to Brazil, alumni 2007 to 2017. She was the first events and the annual Brazil Forum. woman in the history of Ghana to head the Judiciary. She also serves on the board of CAIXIN MEDIA FELLOWS international justice and human rights organisations The Caixin Media group provides such as the Global Justice Center. financial and business news on START-UP NATION CENTRAL (SNC) economic and social developments in China. Through The SNC programme at the School ofers has a new partnership with the supported 21 students to undertake the MPP over Blavatnik School, senior the last four years and supports those with an Image: in January several alumni returned to the journalists and business managers will spend eight interest in technology and in learning about and School to take part in the Integrity and Values in weeks the School, attending tutorials and courses. Government programme run with Lemann connecting with Israel’s innovation ecosystem. The The first Caixin Media Fellow is the Deputy Foundation, including alumnus Jeremy Roberts, MPP class of 2016 includes students from Kyrgyzstan, Managing Editor of Caixin Media, Shan Huang. 2015 (pictured front). Mexico, South Korea, Australia and Malawi. 39 CHAPTER 5 DEVELOPING THE SCHOOL

Front of House Supervisor Anne Wynne giving visitors a tour of the Blavatnik School of Government building. FINANCE The Blavatnik School of Government was founded SOURCE OF RESEARCH AWARDS with a £75 million donation from Len Blavatnik, The Blavatnik School continues to develop its with funding divided into 3 parts for 1) the new research portfolio. The charts below show the building, 2) operating costs, and 3) a challenge/ balance of funding sources supporting the School. incentivisation fund to support and reward the Research portfolio by value attraction of new gifts. 1% Blavatnik School income sources 2017/18 1% 27% Key financial principles 35% • Ensure long-term sustainability through 9% building an endowment, diversifying sources of income and generating new 22% 39% 6% revenue streams. 7% 11% • Ensure value for money and exercise 12% vigilance on costs in all transactions. • Ensure the School’s financial plans support 30% EU charity EU government Non-EU charity Non-EU other and align with the School’s mission and Other sources UK research councils objectives. Teaching income UK charity UK public sector Research income 2017/18 progress Donations and other income Research portfolio by number of grants • 82% growth in research-related income Endowment 3% from £2.06m in 2016/17 to £3.74m in Blavatnik School expenditure 2017/18 2% 2017/18 23% 9% • 91% growth in executive education income from £0.31m in 2016/17 to £0.59m in 28% 19% 2017/18 14% • 42% growth in donations for scholarships 51% from £0.93m in 2016/17 to £1.32m in 14% 16% 2017/18 13% • £28.7m placed in endowment with a 8% EU charity EU government market value of £32.5m generating £1.17m Non-EU charity Non-EU other income in 2017/18 Salary costs Research related costs Other sources UK research councils Scholarships Operating costs UK charity UK public sector

41 THANKING OUR The School is deeply grateful to all of our current The Luksburg Foundation supporters for their generous support to Mo Ibrahim Foundation SUPPORTERS scholarships, research programmes, leadership forums and all aspects of the life and work of the Mr Suhail Rizvi School. The Roma Education Fund

Sir Leonard Blavatnik and the Blavatnik Family Mr Daniel Seiderer Foundation Start-Up Nation Central (SNC) Inamori Foundation Dr André Stern AALL Foundation Thomas Svanikier and Amb Johanna Svanikier Africa Initiative for Governance Mrs Sadako Ogata Amersi Foundation Open Society Foundations Anglo American Mrs Katharina Otto-Bernstein Beecroft Trust Mr Stephen Peel Kofi Adjepong-Boateng Zegarac-Pollock Family Foundation BP Plc Dato' Sri N Razak Brava Foundation The Oxford Thai Foundation Charles Koch Foundation Lemann Foundation ExxonMobil

Fondation Mahmoud Shakarchi Pour Oeuvre et Bienfaisance Image: Jorge Lemann speaking at the School in December 2017. McKinsey & Co

42 Miles Hewstone Ingo Outes OUR FACULTY Professor of Social Psychology and Public Policy, Departmental Lecturer in Economics and Public and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Study Policy of Intergroup Conflict Karthik Ramanna Craig Holmes Professor of Business and Public Policy, and Craig Holmes joined in October Director of the Master of Public Policy 2017. He is a labour economist Adam Ritchie and Departmental Lecturer in Senior Admissions Advisor Public Policy at the School. Prior to Tom Simpson that, he was a Teaching Fellow in Economics Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Mara Airoldi at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has previously Policy Director of the Government Outcomes Lab been a research fellow in the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance at the Maya Tudor Dapo Akande Oxford University Department of Education and a Associate Professor of Government and Public Professor in Law and Public Policy senior researcher in the Employment, Equity and Policy Eric Beinhocker Growth project at the Oxford Martin School. He Adam Webster Professor of Practice, Executive Director of the completed his DPhil in Economics in 2012. Departmental Lecturer in Law and Public Policy, Institute for New Economic Thinking Emily Jones Co-director of the MPP Sir Paul Collier Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Martin Williams Professor of Economics and Public Policy Economic Governance) Associate Professor in Public Management Pepper Culpepper Peter Kemp Jonathan Wolf Professor of Politics and Public Policy Vice-Dean for Academic Afairs and Professor of Blavatnik Chair in Public Policy in association with Stefan Dercon Public Policy Wolfson College Professor of Economic Policy Julien Labonne Lord Stewart Wood Thomas Elston Associate Professor in Economics and Public Policy Fellow of Practice Associate Professor in Public Administration Clare Leaver Ngaire Woods Richenda Gambles Associate Professor of Economics and Public Dean and Professor of Global Economic Tutor for Admissions Policy Governance Thomas Hale Anandi Mani Associate Professor in Public Policy (Global Public Professor of Behavioural Economics and Public Policy) Policy

43 All images: John Cairns, Fisher Studios, Hufton + Crow, and Blavatnik School of Government, unless otherwise noted.

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