Prince Forghab, an MPP student and a Mastercard Foundation Scholar under Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), reflects on the urgency of collaboration ahead of Cameroon’s October election.

Pilar Guerrero, an MPP student and Chevening scholar, has a background in financial inclusion and education. In celebration of Global Money Week (17-23 March 2025), Pilar explores the importance of financial education as a public policy tool and its potential to empower individuals worldwide.

European policymakers are hyper fixated on competing with the US on technology, but they miss a fundamental aspect of winning the innovation race: technology adoption. Blavatnik School alum and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Future Generations Leonardo Quattrucci and Sciences Po’s Beatriz Botero Arcila outline the good news for Europe in the age of AI.

Governments worldwide are quickly ramping up efforts to adopt artificial intelligence, but concerns about risk, bias, and accountability loom large. Felix-Anselm van Lier, Research and Policy Fellow at the Government Outcomes Lab and Co-Director of the Leading Cross-Sector Partnerships Programme, argues that a flexible, collaborative contracting model can unlock progress.

MPP students Ashima Gulati and Noa Hen have established a Social Impact Hub at the heart of the Blavatnik School. They argue that social entrepreneurs are a vital part of solving global challenges and outline their plans to nourish the social impact community in the student body and beyond.