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Geoff Mulgan & Rushanara Ali at the 2007 Skoll World Forum

Video Description

Geoff Mulgan, now Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA), talks about social innovation at the 2007 Skoll World Forum. Later, Rushanara Ali, Labour Member of Parliament, also discusses the topic, focusing on what the barriers to social innovation are and how it can be accelerated. At the time, both were at The Young Foundation.

Speakers

  • Director, The Young Foundation
    Mulgan obtained a First Class degree from Balliol College, Oxford and a Ph.D. in telecommunications from the University of Westminster. He was also a Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, trained as a Buddhist monk in Sri Lanka and worked for a spell during the 1980s as a van driver for the "Labour-supporting collective of musicians and comedians known as Red Wedge", opting ultimately for a career in local government and academia in the UK and going on to become an influential writer on social and political issues in various newspapers and magazines in the 1990s including the Independent, Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman and Marxism Today. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and radio and was made a CBE in 2005. His current base, the Young Foundation, mainly works on social innovation - the design and launch of new social organisations, but also produces some publications, including recent ones on social innovation and the state of British society
  • Associate Director, The Young Foundation
    Rushanara Ali is a British Labour Party politician and Associate Director of the Young Foundation, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow since 2010. As of October 2010, she has been appointed as part of the shadow team for the Department for International Development along with Mark Lazarowicz with Harriet Harman in charge.