People
SEA was launched in June 2024 and is led by Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Associate Professor Carolina Alves from the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Co-Chairs
Founding Director and Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)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 a member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Italian Academy of Sciences Lincei.
Associate Professor in Economics
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP)Dr Carolina Alves is an economist by training whose influences are rooted in intellectual traditions such as Classical Political Economy, Latin American Structuralism and Dependency Theory, Marxian and Kaleckian macroeconomics, and the new Cambridge Tradition, particularly the contributions of Joan Robinson and Tony Lawson. These foundations firmly place her within the field of heterodox economics.
Advisory Board
- Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Erika Kraemer-Mbula, Professor of Economics at the University of Johannesburg
- Carlota Perez, Honorary Professor at Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London and the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University
- Bogolo Kenewendo, Regionalization & Just Transition Director; Special Adviser, UN Climate change High Level Champions; former Cabinet Minister of Investment, Trade and Industry in Botswana
- Usha Rao, Former Under-Secretary-General and Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Claudia Lopez, Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia
- Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director-General for Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO