After a career spanning six decades, renowned development economist Professor Sir Paul Collier has retired, leaving a rich legacy of research, teaching and real-world impact. 

The 2026-27 cohort of Transformational Leadership Fellows has now joined the Blavatnik School. The Transformational Leadership Fellowship programme supports distinguished individuals to take up to one year out, part-time, to engage with faculty and students at the School to develop a working proposal for their next stage of impact.  

Soledad Núñez (MPP 2018) has been elected as Mayor of Asunción, Paraguay, in municipal elections that took place on 4 October.