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The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
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Find out moreDr Patricia Esteve-Gonzalez, an Oxford Martin Fellow at the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre (GCSCC), and Luna Rohland from the World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity, outline how organisations can take a strategic approach to minimising the impacts of cyber-attacks.
On May 6th, 2025, Montserrat’s Premier Reuben Meade visited the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University, hosted by the Oxford Martin School’s Rethinking Natural Resources (ReSET) Programme. The Premier was accompanied by Harvey Edgecombe, a senior advisor to the Montserrat government.
Developing economies, excluding China, receive only 14 percent of total climate finance flows while they account for about one-quarter of global GDP. In addition, only 16 percent of these resources are dedicated to adaptation – with 98 percent of it provided by public actors.
The explosion of worldwide climate-related policies gives resilience to the climate fight even in the face of the USA’s dramatic change in policies under the Trump administration, findings from Oxford's Climate Policy Monitor show.
REECON-UK, a one-day multidisciplinary Rare Earth Element forum hosted by the Oxford Martin School Programme on Rethinking Natural Resources and Oxford EARTH.
Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to lead to substantial economic growth and prosperity. To achieve these objectives, we need to ensure the larger-scale adoption and diffusion of these technologies in a way that maximises their economic value for corporations, consumers and the industrial production.
The illusions that have long defined Africa-Europe relations are not just outdated—they are, Professor Carlos Lopes argues, actively harmful. As Africa repositions itself within a rapidly changing global order, clinging to legacy narratives only deepens inequality and missed opportunities.
In recent years, and certainly since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been massive public and professional interest in Artificial Intelligence. But people are confused about what AI is, what it can and cannot do, what is yet to come, and whether AI is good or bad for humanity and civilisation - whether it will provide solutions to mankind's major challenges or become our gravest existential threat. There is also confusion about how we should regulate AI and where we should draw moral boundaries on its use.
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