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Well, I guess I wouldn't be wrong in saying that working in the Balkans is a synonym for dealing with perpetual crisis. Thus when a worldwide crisis hits, you are kind of...
Gala Díaz Langou talked to Enrique Mendizabal about her career at CIPPEC over the last 15 years and her new role as the executive director, her plans for the leadership...
Early on in the pandemic, Melanie Rayment, director at the Australian Centre for Social Innovation talked to Enrique Mendizabal about how to redesign your value...
Oswaldo Molina, executive director of REDES talk about how REDES, a new think tank in Perú, is working to bridge the work of research fellows and media partners to...
Almost all think tanks aspire to use their insights and expertise to inform policymaking processes. And as a starting position, this is not problematic. However, a think tank may quickly find...
The School for Thinktankers is designed to prepare and inspire the next generation of think tank leaders, build a community of thinktankers, and encourage participants to reflect on their...
An important line of analytic development has been underway for a decade or more, with a new group of actors emerging. The primary differentiating characteristic of this emerging group is...
There are a lot of rankings out there – universities, think tanks, countries, you name it. There’s also a lot of criticism of rankings, like this recent Twitter thread...
. The pandemic imposed many unprecedented challenges on think tanks in the Global South. Amid lockdowns and uncertain cashflows, they found themselves overstretched...
The first time we heard about think tanks, like most students, we weren’t quite sure what they did. We knew they did something with policy, and that policy had to do...
The OTT sector survey will help understand how policy research centres, think tanks, and those related to think tanks and evidence informed policy, see the current context, the key challenges faced and the key issues...
Welcome to the OTT Conference 2021, co-hosted by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). This year, the conference's main topic is think tanks and change. Last year we hosted our first online...