Pantelis Koutroumpis awarded 2025–2026 RITICS Fellowship

‘Come meet us in Dubai’: the new offshoring of grand corruption

So-called professional enablers of grand corruption are increasing service provision out of jurisdictions where they can act without similar restraints.

How can we make cities a place where people and nature thrive together?

Melissa Felipe Cadillo, Programme Coordinator of the Oxford Martin Programme on Biodiversity and Society, describes how universities can act as key brokers to include local residents in decisions on nature recovery in urban environments.

New global index puts nature at the heart of human progress

Researchers from the University of Oxford, including those from the Oxford Martin Programme on Biodiversity and Society, have joined international partners such as the United Nations Development Programme to propose an optimistic and practical new framework to inspire stronger action on nature.

Policy Brief: Universal Job Guarantee Boosts Wellbeing & Eliminates Long-Term Unemployment

An unconditional job guarantee pilot run from 2020-24 in an Austrian town has filled an evidence gap on a welfare policy tool of widespread interest.

New study highlights legal “grey areas” in wildlife trade

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade have identified legal uncertainties in wildlife trade and argue that addressing them could help secure better outcomes for both wildlife and people.

Why the UK must reimagine resilience in the age of transnational climate risks

In this blog, researchers from the Oxford Martin Systemic Resilience Initiative explore why the UK must reimagine resilience through a systemic lens - recognising the transnational nature of climate shocks and their cascading impacts. Drawing on new evidence and high-level policy roundtables, they argue for a strategic shift: from siloed domestic adaptation to globally integrated, forward-looking resilience planning.

Professor Louise Fawcett appointed to the United Nations University Council

Professor Louise Fawcett, Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders, has been appointed to the governing Council of the United Nations University (UNU), the academic arm of the United Nations.

What lessons in cyber resilience can be learnt from the UK High Street attacks?

Dr 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.

Montserrat’s Premier Reuben Meade visits Oxford to deepen scientific collaboration on volcanic research

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.

Mobilising Private Capital to Scale Carbon Markets: Lessons from Insurance

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.

Wildlife trade researchers call for reforms to keep polarisation from tearing CITES apart

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on Wildlife Trade, as part of an international team from nine countries, are calling for change to prevent polarisation on trade regulations for iconic species from causing irreparable damage to CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Agent Based Modelling Comes of Age

J. Doyne Farmer, Director of Complexity Economics at INET Oxford, believes that creating economic models that can effectively incorporate behavioural realism to make useful predictions may be the most important problem in economics today.