Speaker

Giulio

Quaggiotto

Innovation Specialist

Former Head of UNDP Strategic Innovation

Biography

Giulio Quaggiotto is the former Head of Strategic Innovation at UNDP. He was a Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. His career spans leadership roles at Climate KIC, Nesta, WWF, and the World Bank. Additionally, he managed the Jakarta Lab of the UN Global Pulse. His research interests include portfolio approaches to innovation and lead user innovation. Giulio’s passions include marsupials and Slavic philology, which make him the last person you want to be stuck in the elevator with.

Quote

Few would argue that institutional innovation is the need of the day. How to innovate organisations, however, remains a very open question – whether we are talking about renewing existing ones or designing completely new, “greenfield” institutional architectures. IID is an ideal forum to discuss the “how” and take stock of existing practice. I am also hoping the event will provide urgency and momentum to the institutional innovation agenda.

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