Eric Beinhocker
Professor, Blavatnik School of Government and Executive Director for New Economic Thinking, University of Oxford; External Professor and Chair of the Science Board, Santa Fe Institute
Eric Beinhocker is a Professor of Public Policy Practice at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. He is also the founder and Executive Director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University’s Oxford Martin School. INET Oxford is an interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the goals of creating a more just, sustainable, and prosperous economy. Beinhocker is also a Supernumerary Fellow in Economics at Oriel College, and an External Professor and Chair of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute.
Prior to joining Oxford, Beinhocker had an 18-year career at McKinsey & Company where he was a partner and held leadership roles in McKinsey’s Strategy Practice, its Climate Change and Sustainability Practice, and the McKinsey Global Institute. Beinhocker writes frequently on economic and public policy issues and his work has appeared in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Times, the Guardian, The Atlantic, and the Washington Post, and he is the author The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Business and Society. Beinhocker is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the MIT Sloan School, and is originally from Boston, Massachusetts.