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'The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges' with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa
07 Mar 24 in Videos
The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad range of development themes and policy areas.
The White Paper recognises the increasingly contested world we face, with a more complicated and fractured geopolitical environment. As the UK moves into implementing this vision, it will need to navigate this.
The Minister for...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/uk-development-strategy
Prof Susan Jebb and Prof Sir Charles Godfray in conversation: "Rethinking diet, weight and health policy in and after the COVID-19 pandemic"
20 Nov 20 in Videos
The current covid-19 pandemic has focussed attention on the variability in personal risk of serious illness. After age and ethnicity, one of the most important factors associated with developing serious covid complications, requiring admission to hospital or ICU, is being overweight.Excess weight has long been known to be a risk factor for ill-health, though governments have rarely encouraged weight loss...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/rethinking-diet-weight-and-health-policy
"Africa, capital flight and the bankers who help: evidence from the FinCEN files" a panel discussion with William Fitzgibbon, Augustin Armendariz, Taiwo Hassan Adebayo and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
10 Nov 20 in Videos
The FinCEN Files investigation, coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, exposed more than $2 trillion in suspicious deals.
Criminals, politicians and others sent money through the world's major banks, which initially ignored red flags or reported the money as potentially dirty after weeks, months or years of delay. Billions of dollars in suspicious deals moved from Africa into Europe...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/videos/africa-and-capital-flight
Claire Dennis
Research Affiliate
Claire Dennis is a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (GovAI) and an Affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
She is an international AI governance expert whose current research focuses on international institutional design and global benefit-sharing in AI development and deployment. Before joining GovAI, Claire served as a US diplomat and strategic consultant...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/claire-dennis
Charles Martinet
Research Affiliate
Charles Martinet is a Research Affiliate at the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and a Summer Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI.
His work aims to deliver research-based and operational policy advice for the international and European governance of advanced AI. His work has been published by Euractiv, the German Marshall Fund, the Center for European Policy Analysis...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/charles-martinet
Ben Harack
DPhil Affiliate
Ben is a DPhil student in International Relations at the University of Oxford's Department of Politics and International Relations. Ben studies the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to trigger a world war and how to prevent that from happening. His work focuses on the theory and history of political negotiations that take place in the shadow of violence.
Ben spent a...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/ben-harack
Ben Bucknall
Research Affiliate
Ben Bucknall is a Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI and an Affiliate with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
Ben’s research centres on technical topics with downstream implications for AI policy and governance, with a particular focus on system access requirements for AI research and evaluation, as well as responsible deployment best practices. He is also...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/ben-bucknall
Orsolya Dobe
Research Affiliate
Orsolya Dobe is a Research Affiliate of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and a current Master of Public Policy Student at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.
She served as a policy analyst at the OECD’s AI Policy Unit, coordinating the work of various expert groups and the official governing body on AI governance and contributing to the...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/orsolya-dobe
Dr Jaco Hoffman
Senior Research Fellow in Sociology of Africa
Jaco joined the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing in October 2006, developing the Institute's focus on ageing in Africa through the conduct of research and co-ordination of the African Research on Ageing Network (AFRAN).
His research interests revolve around intergenerational issues in Africa in general, and in particular the configuration and reconfiguration of these relationships in the context of HIV/AIDS. This...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/jaco-hoffman
Nicolas Lippolis
Research and Policy Officer
Nicolas Lippolis is a doctoral candidate in Politics and a researcher at the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford. His current research deals with the politics of industrial policy in Ethiopia and Angola. His broader research interests are in development strategies and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on Africa and Latin America...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/nicolas-lippolis
Professor Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Professor of the International Politics of Africa
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is Professor of the International Politics of Africa at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford; Official Fellow of St Peter's College; and a Fellow with the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is a former editor of African Affairs, the journal of the Royal African Society, and co-director of the Oxford Martin...
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-ricardo-soares-de-oliveira
'Transnational religious practices and negotiation of difference among Zimbabwean Catholics in Britain', with Dominic Pasura
15 Feb 17 in Events
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/transnational-religious-practices-and-negotiation-of-difference-among-zimbabwean-catholics-in-britain-with-dominic-pasura