We are pleased to announce that Sam Rowbury, Director of Commercial Policy in the Cabinet Office, has joined the Blavatnik School as an OPEN Visiting Fellow with the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab).  

As global policymakers grapple with the urgent question of how best to safeguard minors in online environments, a new project from the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy launched today aims to address these challenges in partnership with the Oxford Internet Institute.

In their new book Billionaire Backlash: The Age of Corporate Scandal and How it Could Save Democracy, Blavatnik’s Vice Dean Professor Pepper Culpepper and Professor Taeku Lee of Harvard University argue that the shared anger that follows major corporate scandals can be channeled into a backlash with the potential to reinvigorate failing democracies.