Alice Hopkin (MPP 2025), former UK Special Adviser to the Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Secretary of State for Health & Social Care, shares her insights from the Master of Public Policy course ‘How to Lead in a Polarised World’, describing how it both resonated with and reshaped her approach to public service. Alice is a 1+1 MPP & MBA Pershing Square Scholar.

Pelumi Olugbile, MPP student and AIG Scholar, outlines how her visit to the Education World Forum underscored her conviction that AI cannot be a “cosmetic layer” on education systems – and how countries should define their own visions for how this technology is used to close the inequality gap.

Parth Adhikari, Master of Public Policy student, explores why civic mobilisation is not translating into durable political change, and what policymakers should do to address this.

Elsie Addo Awadzi, Visiting Fellow and Former Deputy Governor at the Bank of Ghana, outlines the opportunity cost of failing to give women leaders meaningful authority in Africa’s most powerful institutions and her proposal for a forthcoming Women in Economic Governance Initiative.

Corey Blyth (MPP 2025) argues that amid rising distrust and polarisation, the Governor-General of Australia’s call for kindness and care in politics and broader society more important now than ever.

Master of Public Policy student Rahym R Augustin-Joseph explores how contemporary UK migration policy reflects evolving forms of colonial power and argues for a renewed and strengthened call for reparatory justice.