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An Afternoon of Missions in Action

18 December 2024, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm

Event title card showing the two panel hosts, Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway.

Join IIPP’s Mission-Oriented Innovation Network (MOIN) for an afternoon session on missions in action around the world.

This event is free.

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Join us online on December 18th from 14-16:00 GMT for an afternoon of missions in action which will accompany the publication of the 2024 MOIN Casebook. 

The 2024 MOIN Casebook is a compilation of seven stories showcasing practitioner learnings from implementing around the world. 

The implementation of missions is not always the same and, while stories of practice like these in our 2024 MOIN Casebook help to illustrate some of their many possibilities, the deployment of a mission-oriented approach is dependent on contextual factors and differs across actor typology, geography and scale. 

Join us as IIPP Professors Rainer Kattel and Rowan Conway convene an engaging panel discussing the lessons we can learn from global mission practitioners, as well as examining, in more depth, the role citizens can play in mission-oriented approaches.  

Meet the panel:

  • Chair: Professor Rainer Kattel | Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
  • Chair: Professor Rowan Conway | Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor of Strategic Design at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
  • Panelists: 
    • Kate Philip | Programme Lead: Presidential Employment Stimulus, South Africa
    • Sandy Tung | Principal Policy Officer, Innovation and Technology, Greater London Authority
    • Nico van Meeteren | Executive director and secretary general of the Dutch Top Sector Life Sciences and Health (Health~Holland)
    • Marin Beims | Strategy Officer at Health~Holland 
    • More panelists to be announced soon

Learn more about the Mission-Oriented Innovation Network

About the Speakers

Rainer Kattel

Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Rainer Kattel
Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). He has studied at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Marburg, Germany, in philosophy, political philosophy, classics and public administration. He led Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance for 10 years, building it into one of the leading innovation and governance schools in the region. 

Professor Kattel has also served on various public policy commissions, including the Estonian Research Council and European Science Foundation. He has worked as an expert for the OECD, UNDP and the European Commission, and served as a member of E-Estonia Council advising the Prime Minister of Estonia. Currently, he leads the Estonian Government’s Gender Equality Council.

He has published extensively on innovation policy, its governance and specific management issues. In 2013, he received Estonia's National Science Award for his work on innovation policy. More about Rainer Kattel

Rowan Conway

Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor of Strategic Design at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Rowan Conway
Rowan Conway is deputy director of the Just Transition Finance Lab at LSE’s Grantham Research Institute. She is also a Policy Fellow and Visiting Professor of Strategic Design, leading the Transformation by Design module of the MPA in Innovation, Public Policy and Public Value at UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Between 2019-2022 she worked with Professor Mariana Mazzucato to lead the Mission Oriented Innovation Network (MOIN) at IIPP, convening global policy-making institutions such as the Scottish Government, the Swedish innovation agency Vinnova, the New Zealand Department for the Environment, the OECD, UNDP and the BBC in a range of exploratory design projects focused on mission-oriented innovation and public value creation. More about Rowan Conway