Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation, one of the world’s leading centres for social innovation, social enterprise and public policy, with a 50 year history of creating new organisations in the public, private and non-profit sector, as well as pioneering ideas in fields including ageing, education, healthcare and poverty reduction. Between 1997 and 2004 Geoff had various roles in the UK government including director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office.  Before that he was the founder and director of the think-tank Demos. He has also been Chief Adviser to Gordon Brown MP; a lecturer in telecommunications; an investment executive; and a reporter on BBC TV and radio.  He is a visiting professor at LSE, UCL and Melbourne University.   He is chairing a Carnegie Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society in the UK and Ireland, and is an adviser to various governments around the world.  His most recent book is ‘The Art of Public Strategy: mobilising power and knowledge for the common good’’ (Oxford University Press, 2009).   Other books include Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006) and Connexity (Vintage and Harvard Business Press, 1998).