Professor at UCL; former CEO of Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts); former CEO of Young Foundation; head of policy in UK Prime Minister's office; head of UK government strategy unit; director of Demos. PhD in telecommunications. Visiting professor at UCL, LSE, Melbourne; senior visiting scholar Harvard. Author of many books including most recently 'Big Mind; how collective intelligence can change our world' (Princeton University Press, 2017), 'Another World is Possible: how to reignite social and political imagination' (Hurst/OUP 2022) and 'When Science Meets Power' (Polity, 2024)