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The first On Think Tanks Conference in the US will be held June 25 2019 at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC. The conference will bring together think tank scholars, policy entrepreneurs and funders to...
Editor's note: As part of the inaugural Annual Conference of the Royal Society of Arts in Peru, Felipe Portocarrero, former chancellor of Universidad del Pacífico, in...
In this webinar, we will discuss experiences from UNICEF in working with governments around the world to stimulate more evidence-informed decision-making on issues that matter to children and...
This session at the 6th Africa Think Tank Summit in Nairobi was led by the African OTT-TTI Fellows. You can listen to the session here. The idea behind this session...
This webinar will present a series of new challenges that think tanks face in their daily work to inform policy making processes. We will consider reaching wider audiences (such as more general publics, social...
I think that the people of this country have had enough of experts from organisations with acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong … Michael...
Do think tanks and social movements work together? What motivates this engagement? How do they work with each other? What difficulties do they face? With the support of...
Elections are critical milestones in the political cycle of any country. They also represent a unique -yet highly charged- policy window. But there are other highly...
Attempts to set up a presidential candidate debate during Argentina’s 2011 elections failed, with those candidates leading the polls refusing to join. But, in 2015...
When I joined the CAPRI team in early 2018 as the director of research, I began to explore an international think tank network for us to join. Founded in 2007, CAPRI—the Caribbean Policy...
Yesterday evening, during the public event on think tanks and public engagement, we started collecting a wide range of questions about public engagement: Who is the...
If you imagine yourself working for a think tank in the future or want to someday start a think tank on your own, but don’t know how to improve your credibility and develop your skills as a...