Reports
Some recent reports are linked below - longer-form projects, most done with collaborators.
My report written for the InterAmerican Development Bank on how development finance needs to adapt to demographic change, April 2026
This is my recent report on the changing role of strategy in national governments
This is a report on cities - and how to reimagine their institutions as meshes
My report on ‘DOGE done better’ (from Demos): showing how governments could implement efficiency drives without the disasters of DOGE
A short book (from Cambridge University Press) about the complex role of the arts in social imagination which doesn’t quite fit hte standard narratives
Institutional Architecture & Future Global Governance
Here is a report I co-wrote on institutional innovation and global governance - with Jessica Seddon and Arvind Kumar - describing how governance has changed and some potential design principles for new institutions in fields ranging from plastics to AI, space to refugees.
Safeguarding Elections in the Age of AI & Synthetic Content
Here is a report written with Ales Cap on how to protect elections from the risks of deepfakes and misinformation - it sets out the case for new Electoral Integrity Institutions
This report is about evidence - and lessons from many experiments trying to synthesise evidence and get it used by policy-makers
A report surveying innovations in care and in response to ageing around the world, from Poland and Korea to Portugal and the Netherlands
This report is about transferability - if something works in one place and time will it elsewhere?
A report describing urban innovation districts around the world, how to grow them and how to make them more inclusive