Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London (UCL)
Founding Director, UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP)

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her work challenges orthodox thinking about the role of the state and the private sector in driving innovation. She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD in Economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. 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. Her highly-acclaimed books include The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018) and Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021).