Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato is an Italian-American economist and professor in the economics of innovation and public value at University College London, where she founded the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Her research on how the state drives innovation, set out in The Entrepreneurial State and Mission Economy, has led to advisory roles with governments in South Africa and Scotland, and she chaired the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health for All.