How does government listen to scientists? Palgrave Policy Essentials (September, 2108)

Computational Modelling Royal Society Open Science (Calder et al, 2018)

Risk management in a policy environment: the particular challenges associated with extreme risk, Futures (2018)

Oracles and models: ancient and modern ways of telling the future, The Conversation, February (2018) Contributor

Computational Modelling: Technological futures A report by the Government Office for Science and the Council for Science and Technology (2018) Co-author

Forensic science and beyond: authenticity, provenance and assurance. The second annual report of the Government Chief Scientific Advisor (2015) Second author

Climate Change: a risk assessment, by Sir David King, the Foreign Secretary’s Climate Change Envoy (2015) Case study on managing systemic risk

Future Directions for Science Advice in Europe, Centre for Science and Policy, Cambridge and others (2015) Chapter on risk and the perception of risk in policy-making

Innovation and Risk: managing risk, not avoiding it. The first annual report of the Government Chief Scientific Advisor (2014) Second author

Science in the Wild Harvard Business Review (2006)

2018

AI and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, panelist, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Conference (AAAS) Texas January

Research Cultures of the future, Chair, AAAS, Texas January

2017

Quantitative modelling and futures thinking: lessons from the UK’s Foresight programme, Anticipation Conference, London, December

Data ethics and governance, panelist, TechUK Annual Conference, London, December

Machine Learning: the power and promise of computers that learn by example, Foundation for Science and Technology, London, November

Informing policy with futures work, Decision-making Under Deep Uncertainty, Oxford, November

AI Narratives, co-organiser and speaker at three workshops with the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge and London

Innovation, science and technology: a policy perspective, Economics of Innovation, Geneva, September

2016 – 2013

Science in policy-making Speaker and tutor, EC Joint Research Centre, International Institution for Applied Systems Analysis Summer School, Brussels 2016

Risk and resilience, panelist at  EC Joint Research Centre conference on building a resilient Europe, September 2015

How we think about the future and why it matters,  TEDx Kings College London 2015

The governance of big data, AAAS Annual Conference, 2015

A proportionate response to climate change: Foresight Future Flooding project; FCO and Tsinghua University, Beijing 2015

Horizon scanning, Informal Meeting of G8 science ministers and heads of national science academies, 2014

What makes an inspiring scientist? Cheltenham Science Festival 2014

Complexity, policy-making and geo-engineering Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2014

Can we trust climate models? Cheltenham Science Festival, 2013