How can governments better engage with different sectors and stakeholders? Moreover, how can they unleash new forces for good, by working closely with private and not-for-profit partners, achieve better outcomes for society?  How can public and private capital address social and economic challenges globally?

• Sir Ian Cheshire, Government Lead Non-Executive, and Chairman, Debenhams
• Professor Jeffrey Liebman, Director, Government Performance Lab, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• Hidehiko Yuzaki, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan 
• Chaired by Professor Ngaire Woods, Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford

This is event was part of The Challenges of Government Conference, held on 19-20 May 2016 at the Blavatnik School of Government.

The Challenges of Government Conference is the Blavatnik School of Government’s annual high-level conference. Since 2011, the Challenges of Government Conference has been bringing together a global, multidisciplinary and cross-sector audience to Oxford. From rapid urbanisation to citizens activism, the Conference brings together the brightest minds in government, the private sector, and academia to discuss policies, strategies, and ultimately real-world solutions to some of the world’s toughest challenges.