Reports
Some recent reports are linked below - longer-form projects, most done with collaborators.
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