The Blavatnik School of Government today announced that Margrethe Vestager, former Vice President of the European Commission, is to be one of the inaugural Blavatnik World Leaders Fellow.

Outsourcing adult social care services in England to the private sector since the 1980s has led to worse care and should be rolled back, argue researchers from the Blavatnik School of Government and the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University, in The British Medical Journal today. They suggest that removing the profit motive would help improve quality and reduce inequities. 

As countries meet at COP29 in Baku, a new study provides the most detailed view yet of how key economic rules globally are aligning – or not – to climate goals.