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Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation & Public Value at University College London (UCL) where she is the Founding Director of the UCL IIPP.

Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London, where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University.

She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy's highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. Most recently, Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.

Mariana Mazzucato

As well as The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths (2013), she is the author of The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy (2018), Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism (2021) and The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies (2023).

She advises policy makers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her roles have included for example Chair of the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Co-Chair on the Council on Urban Initiatives, and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council. Previously, through her role as Special Advisor for the EC Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation (2017-2019), she authored the high-impact report on Mission-Oriented Research and Innovation in the European Union, turning “missions” into a crucial new instrument in the European Commission’s Horizon innovation programme, and more recently, authored a report with the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on Transformational Change in Latin America and the Caribbean: A mission-oriented approach.


Media highlights

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Ideas with Nahlah Ayed: The Great Reset

CBC Radio | 30 May 2023

Foreign Affairs
A Long Way From Nuclear Fusion

Foreign Affairs | 31 Jan 2023

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There is no alternative to green industrial strategy

Project Syndicate | 19 Dec 2023

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How taxpayers grow the private sector: Mariana Mazzucato

The Bottom Line: CNBC | 3 Oct 2023

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Selected Publications

For a full list of publications visit Professor Mazzucato's UCL profile.

Books
  • Mazzucato, M. and Collington, R. (2023). The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies. London: Penguin Allen Lane, London https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451193/the-big-con-by-collington-mariana-mazzucato-and-rosie/9780241573082; (Penguin Random House, New York) and translated into Dutch (Nieuw Amsterdam), German (Campus, 2023), forthcoming in Greek (Epikentro), Italian (Laterza), forthcoming in Polish (Wydawnictwo Heterodox), forthcoming in Portugese (Companhia das Letras, Brazil) and Spanish (Taurus).
  • Mazzucato, M. (2021) Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism, Penguin, Allen Lane, London, https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315191/mission-economy (Harper Collins, USA) and translated into Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Dutch (Nieuw Amsterdam), Finnish (Terra Cognita), French (Fayard), German (Campus), Greek (Epikentro), forthcoming in Israel (Poalim), Italian (Laterza), Japan (NewsPicks), Norwegian (Res Publica), Poland (Heterodox), Portugal (Temas e Debates), Serbia (Nova knjiga), Slovenia (UMco), Spanish (Taurus), Sweden (Verbal), Turkey (Koc).
  • Mazzucato, M. (2020), Non sprechiamo questa crisi, Laterza, Rome, Italy, ISBN 9788858142875, https://www.laterza.it/scheda-libro/?isbn=9788858142875
  • Mazzucato, M. (2018) The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy, Penguin, Allen Lane-Penguin, London, ISBN: 978-0-241-1888-1, US edition (Public Affairs) and translated into Chinese (CITIC), Dutch (Nieuw Amsterdam), forthcoming in Estonian (Varrak), Finnish (Terra Cognita), forthcoming in French (Fayard), Germany (Campus), Greek (Epikentro), Italian (Laterza), Japanese (Keiei Kagaku), Korean (Minumsa), Portuguese (Brazil, Companhia das Letras; Polish (Heterodox), Portugal,Temas E Debates), forthcoming in Russian (Higher School of Economics Press), Spanish (Taurus), forthcoming in Swedish (Verbal Forlag), Taiwainese (China Times), forthcoming in Turkish (Koc University Press) and forthcoming in Vietnamese (Tre).
  • Jacobs, M. and Mazzucato, M. (Eds.) (2016), Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth, Wiley-Blackwell, London, ISBN: 978-1-119-12095-7 
  • Mazzucato, M. (2013), The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths, Anthem Press: London, UK, ISBN 9780857282521, US edition (Public Affairs) and translated into Chinese (CITIC), Croatian (Skolska knjiga), Dutch (Nieuw Amsterdam), Finnish (Terra Cognita), French (Fayard), German (Campus), forthcoming in Greek (Epikentro), forthcoming in Israel (Poalim), Italian (Laterza), Japanese (Keiei Kagaku), Polish (Heterodox), Portuguese (Brazil-Companhia Das Letras), forthcoming in Russian (Higher School of Economics), Serbian (Akadesmka knjiga), Slovenian (Umco), Spanish (Taurus), Taiwainese (China Times), Turkish (Koc University Press), forthcoming in Vietnamese (Tre) and forthcoming in Korean.
  • Mazzucato, M., Lowe, J., Shipman, A. and Trigg, A. (2010), Personal Investment: financial planning in an uncertain world, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK, ISBN 978-0-230-24660-7:1-448
  • Mazzucato, M. and Dosi, G. (eds.) (2006), Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: pharma-biotech, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-521-85822-4: 1-446
  • Mazzucato, M. (ed.) (2002), Strategy for Business, a Reader, Sage Publications: London, UK, ISBN 0-7619-7413-X: 1-378
  • Mazzucato, M. (2000), Firm Size, Innovation and Market Structure: the evolution of market concentration and instability, Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA, USA, ISBN 1-84064-346-3: 1-138
Selected journal articles (peer reviewed)
Working papers (recent and selected)

Contact

For media enquiries:

For media and press enquiries for the Institute’s Director, Prof Mariana Mazzucato, contact: iipp-dir-comms@ucl.ac.uk

For media and press enquiries for the Institute of Innovation and Public Purpose please contact: Michael Lucibella, m.lucibella@ucl.ac.uk

For event enquiries: iipp-director-pa@ucl.ac.uk