Alumnus wins teaching excellence award at the Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile)

Rafael Pastor giving a lecture.

Rafael Pastor (MPP 2015) will receive an award for the best professor of the Master of Public Policy programme at Universidad del Desarrollo in Chile for the year 2021. Rafael teaches public management and state reform on this master's programme.

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16 December 2025

MPP and MSc alumnus Carlos Santiago Guzmán wins the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award

Carlos Santiago Guzmán Gutiérrez, an alumnus of the Master of Public Policy and the MSc in Public Policy Research, has received the inaugural Michael Cichon Graduate Award for outstanding master’s thesis in Social Protection. The award recognises his MSc thesis, “Universal Social Protection Schemes in Forced Displacement Settings: Evidence from Colombia.”

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05 December 2025

Former Indonesia Minister of Finance, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, to join the Blavatnik School of Government as World Leaders Fellow

Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia’s former Minister of Finance, will take up the World Leaders Fellowship at the Blavatnik School of Government for 2026.

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02 December 2025

St Paul’s Church acquired for Blavatnik School of Government

The University of Oxford has purchased St Paul’s Church in Jericho, Oxford, for the Blavatnik School of Government, helping to ensure this important local building can be protected for the years ahead.