Dean warns that brinkmanship is "playing with fire"

Watch the Blavatnik School's Dean, Professor Ngaire Woods sum up the choices avaiable for Spain and the Eurozone on the BBC's Newsnight programme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01jrqlr/Newsnight_06_06_2012/

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Inside the Rising Public Leaders Programme: 34 public leaders came to Oxford to step back, connect and rethink how they lead

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Abebe Aemro Selassie will join the Blavatnik School of Government as a Visiting Fellow of Practice, and as a Principal Advisor with the Economic Policy Network (EPN) from 1 September 2026.

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Crucial lessons about how governments can work with other sectors on social outcomes

The Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab) has published its final evaluations of a pioneering UK government social outcomes fund aimed at helping the most vulnerable in society.

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