Jen Easterly, former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency and Special Assistant to President Barack Obama, joins the Blavatnik School as a Visiting Fellow of Practice with the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy, as part of its expanded drive to tackle the major challenges of the digital age.

The Inamori Foundation has announced the recipients of the 2025 Kyoto Prize, which will be hosted by the School in Oxford next year, recognising transformative achievements in the sciences, arts and philosophy.

Professor Ciaran Martin, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations at the Blavatnik School of Government, has been awarded a Social Sciences Division Teaching Excellence Award.