Today Heywood Fellow Jenny Bates sets out the aims of her year-long Fellowship, which is focused on developing a refreshed UK strategy for navigating a changing global economic order.

In the Fellowship’s first paper, Jenny argues that the global economic system is undergoing a period of profound change.

Jenny says:

“We are at a pivotal moment: uncertainty is high and the old rules, norms, institutions and power relations that made up the global economic order as we know it are shifting.”

The paper outlines a number of building blocks for a new UK strategy, including the case for a different relationship between the state and business to ensure that such a strategy can command broad support and endure beyond electoral cycles. It also sets out a series of alternative policy approaches that would represent a departure from current policy settings. You can read the full paper here.

The Fellowship is actively inviting views from policymakers, practitioners and other stakeholders, which will help shape the development of a more detailed strategic framework and specific policy proposals in the next phase of the Fellowship.

If you would like to contribute to the discussion, please share your reflections at heywood@bsg.ox.ac.uk.

The Heywood Fellowship, created by the Heywood Foundation in memory of Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary from 2012 to 2018, gives a senior UK civil servant the opportunity to explore long-term and cross-cutting public policy issues outside the immediate demands of government.