Cities, SI-Urban
Professor Mariana Mazzucato announced as keynote speaker
Mariana Mazzucato, PhD, is a worldwide name with a reputation to match.
She is the author of 4 best-selling books, including: The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Business, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies, just released this year.
Now, this leading voice will take the stage at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit as the keynote speaker for 2023. As the major event in the world of urban mobility, the UITP Global Summit has an important a major agenda for the sector that needs the best voices to drive that direction.
Over four days (Barcelona, June 4-7, 2023), the most important names and faces in the sector will come together to discuss how the future of public transport.
New Republic magazine called her “one of the most important thinkers in innovation,” Mariana Mazzucato, PhD, is a global name with a reputation to match.
Economist. Professor. Author. Innovator. Advisor. Thinker.
Mariana Mazzucato is an interlocutor whose advice to policymakers around the world advises policymakers around the world on innovation-based, inclusive and sustainable growth, she has sought-after speakers around the world.
She enjoys an international reputation for her extensive research and policy work, with her particular areas of interest being innovation-led growth, financing collective value, structural change, mission-driven policy, purpose-driven governance, and from the common good to the common good.
As a lecturer, Professor Mazzucato, PhD, teaches Economics of Innovation and Public Value Value at University College London, where she is the founding director of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public for Innovation and Public Purpose.
As an author, she has written four highly acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, and Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism, the first The first book was published in 2013; the most recent The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Business, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies, published just this year.
As a consultant, she brings her experience and insights to numerous high-level positions, including Chair of the World Health Organization’s Council on the Economics of Health for All, Co-Chair of the Council on Urban Initiatives, and the OECD’s High-Level Advisory Panel on Climate and Economic Resilience, to name just a few…
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