Mariana Mazzucato | The Common Good Economy

Sat 21 Nov 2026 | 10:00am - 11:00am

Gillian Tett

Our economic system is broken. The climate crisis is accelerating. Inequality is deepening. Professor Mariana Mazzucato – one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals – believes another way is possible. In The Common Good Economy, Mariana provides a bold reimagining of economics and offers a practical compass for navigating our economies in a radically different direction, where people and planet can thrive.

In conversation with Gillian Tett.

Venue: TTP Stage (Cambridge Union)

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD, CBE, FREcon) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose. She is winner of international prizes including the Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 2021, Italy’s highest civilian honour, the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She is a member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and the Italian Academy of Sciences Lincei. In 2025, she was appointed Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to economics in the King’s Birthday Honours List. In April, 2026, she was appointed as the first Economist-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery. Pope Francis appointed her to the Pontifical Academy for Life for bringing ‘more humanity’ to the world.

Chair Biography

Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. 

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, ran Moral Money, the FT’s sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian’s earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels. 

She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America’s Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith’s, London in the UK.