Mariana Mazzucato, PhD

Professor, University College London | Author, "The Big Con"
Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. She is a selected fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei).
She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the "3 most important thinkers about innovation" by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing "more humanity" to the world.
She is the author of four highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013) which investigates the critical role the state plays in driving growth; The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018) which looks at how value creation needs to be rewarded over value extraction; Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021) rethinks the capacity and role of government within the economy and society; and most recently The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023).
She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, member of the South African President's Economic Advisory Council, the UN High Level Advisory Board for Economic and Social Affairs, the European Space Agency's High-Level Advisory Group on Human and Robotic Space Exploration for Europe, Argentina's Economic and Social Council and Vinnova's Advisory Panel in Sweden and the OECD High-Level Advisory Panel on Climate and Economic Resilience. Previously, through her role as Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation (2017-2019), she authored the high-impact report on Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union, turning "missions" into a crucial new instrument in the European Commission's Horizon innovation program, and more recently, authored a report with the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach.

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Economist critiques Labour and Tory economic policies | Mariana Mazzucato
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WHO Council on the Economics of Health For All | WHO
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What is economic value, and who created it? | TED2019
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The Entrepreneurial State in Action: An Anniversary Celebration
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The COVID-19 crisis is a chance to do capitalism differently | TED2020
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Sunak’s Tories, Starmer’s Labour: Britain is stuck in a doom loop of failed economics. Here’s the way out
The Guardian
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ARPA-H Could Offer Taxpayers a Fairer Shake
Issues in Science and Technology
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Rethinking Growth and Revisiting the Entrepreneurial State
Project Syndicate
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Meet Mariana Mazzucato, the economist influencing the treasurer
Financial Review
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Why we need a new economics of water as a common good
Nature
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What Local Governments Need to Lead
Project Syndicate
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Water for sustainable development
Nature
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UK ministers promised to kick the consultant habit but they can't: they're addicted - and we pay the price
The Guardian
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The biggest problem we have today is inertia'
Prospect Magazine
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The Big Con - how consultsancy firms cash in
The Guardian
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The AI Apocalypse?
Project Syndicate
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Running out of battery: how post-Brexit Britain is failing to set up a future-focused economy
The Guardian
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Preparing for the next pandemic will take a global commitment
Financial Times
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Getting Drug Development Right
Project Syndicate
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Financing the Common good
Project Syndicate
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Consultancies are coming off a pandemic boom. Are they still worth hiring?
CNN
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Consultants and the Crisis of Capitalism
Project Syndicate
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Big Consulting's New Con
The American Prospect
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Best summer books of 2023: Business
Financial Times
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A Long Way From Nuclear
Foreign Affairs

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