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Cambridge Governance Labs emerged from our founder Dr John Barker's early-career experience of life under a dictatorship in Southern Africa. This revealed the importance of good governance in promoting human well-being and the devastating consequences of governance failures.
These experiences crystallized into the desire to establish an organisation dedicated to understanding the attributes of good governance and sources of governance risk.
Cambridge Governance Labs was established in 2015 at the University of Cambridge as a research and training institution to disseminate knowledge about governance risk and how good governance can be achieved in practical settings.

Fiduciary decision-making procedures are transformed on a global scale to create a quality of governance that promotes peaceful, humane and economically productive societies.

Our mission is to empower those who are tackling global and local challenges, helping them to identify and address specific governance shortcomings in the legal, political and economic settings that are responsible for those challenges.

We seek to carry out our mission through the following mean:

Bring together researchers within the University of Cambridge and beyond to carry out world-class multi-disciplinary research into forces that influence fiduciary decision-making.
Develop tools and techniques that promote ethical fiduciary decision-making.
Use pilot projects to bench-test in practical settings, learning tools that provide feedback to refine content.
Increase impact by scaling up dissemination, forging new relationships and co-creating new projects.
Share our findings to support and empower institutions confronting global threats.
Explore new forms of knowledge dissemination to enter the mainstream of public administration and of public consciousness.

In order to understand governance deficiencies in context, Cambridge Governance Labs has designed and taken part in projects in a variety of contexts where governance problems impact human well-being. These settings include:

Access to medicine
Dispute resolution
Governance indicators
Ethical Governance Programme
Governance literacy for young people
Ethics of Climate Change
Design a dashboard to track governance risks

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Our Story

Vision

Mission

Strategy

Our Track Record

Cambridge Governance Labs emerged from our founder Dr John Barker's early-career experience of life under a dictatorship in Southern Africa. This revealed the importance of good governance in promoting human well-being and the devastating consequences of governance failures.

These experiences crystallized into the desire to establish an organisation dedicated to understanding the attributes of good governance and sources of governance risk.

Cambridge Governance Labs was established in 2015 at the University of Cambridge as a research and training institution to disseminate knowledge about governance risk and how good governance can be achieved in practical settings.

Fiduciary decision-making procedures are transformed on a global scale to create a quality of governance that promotes peaceful, humane and economically productive societies.

Our mission is to empower those who are tackling global and local challenges, helping them to identify and address specific governance shortcomings in the legal, political and economic settings that are responsible for those challenges.

We seek to carry out our mission through the following mean:

Bring together researchers within the University of Cambridge and beyond to carry out world-class multi-disciplinary research into forces that influence fiduciary decision-making.

Develop tools and techniques that promote ethical fiduciary decision-making.

Use pilot projects to bench-test in practical settings, learning tools that provide feedback to refine content.

Increase impact by scaling up dissemination, forging new relationships and co-creating new projects.

Share our findings to support and empower institutions confronting global threats.

Explore new forms of knowledge dissemination to enter the mainstream of public administration and of public consciousness.

In order to understand governance deficiencies in context, Cambridge Governance Labs has designed and taken part in projects in a variety of contexts where governance problems impact human well-being. These settings include:

Access to medicine

Dispute resolution

Governance indicators

Ethical Governance Programme

Governance literacy for young people

Ethics of Climate Change

Design a dashboard to track governance risks

Cambridge Governance Labs