Alice Hopkin (MPP 2025), former UK Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, shares her insights from the Master of Public Policy course ‘How to Lead in a Polarised World’, describing how it both resonated with and reshaped her approach to public service. Alice is a 1+1 MPP & MBA Pershing Square Scholar.

As countries compete for control over the technologies that power the modern world, the global semiconductor industry has become a focal point of economic and geopolitical tension. At the Blavatnik School, students are encouraged to look beyond the headlines of this “chip war” to understand the deeper forces shaping it.