Geoff Mulgan

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Geoff Mulgan initially worked at the Greater London Council. He was a 1986-87 Harkness Fellow (which reinforces Anglo-American links) at MIT. He was co-founder and director of the London based think tank Demos from 1993-98.[1] Mulgan's CV on the Demos website[2] does not mention that he joined the British American Project (BAP) in 1996.[3]

Background

Geoff Mulgan was described in an article in The Guardian as "the ultimate New Labourite" [4]. He has been a key advisor to Tony Blair and was one of the founders of the think tank Demos which has close ties to New Labour.[5] He was one of the key figures in the drive to 'modernise' left-wing politics.

In the 1980s Mulgan was part of the Comedia consultancyCite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag

A semior fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government - which is run by another former Demos director Tom Bentley[6]

A member of the controversial British American Project[7]

previously he:

Worked for the greater London Council

Worked for Comedia

1990 - 1992 - Special Advisor to Gordon Brown who was then in the shadow cabinet

1993 - Co Founder of think tank Demos and its first director

1997 - Worked for the U.K government in various roles including as head of the policy unit in the Prime Ministers office[8]

Books

  • Good and Bad Power: the ideals and betrayals of government (Penguin, 2006
  • Connexity (Harvard Business Press and Jonathon Cape, 1998)
  • Saturday Night or Sunday Morning (Comedia, 1987)
  • Communication and Control: Networks and the New Economies of Communication (Blackwells, 1991)
  • Politics in an Antipolitical Age (Polity, 1994)
  • Life After Politics (Harper Collins, 1997


Notes

  1. "Geoff Mulgan - England", World-Wide Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum, accessed February 2009.
  2. "Geoff Mulgan", Demos website, accessed February 2009.
  3. Andy Beckett, "Friends in high places", The Guardian, 6 November 2004, accessed February 2009.
  4. John Harris, "The power of influence", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009
  5. John Harris, "The power of influence", The Guardian, 26 May 2006, accessed 15 April 2009
  6. http://www.anzsog.edu.au/staff/staff.php Accessed 15 April 2007
  7. Andy Beckett Guardian 6/11/04 [1] Accessed 13 April 2008
  8. [2] Accessed 15 April 2008