Jesper Christiansen

Jesper is Co-founder of States of Change - a non-profit global public innovation learning collective - dedicated to supporting governments and institutions to reinvent themselves and drive culture change. Over the past decade, Jesper has been working with and advising government organisations and international institutions around the world to support their strategic innovation work and build better capacity for dealing with complex problems. This work has both been carried out as Head of Strategy and Development at UK Innovation Foundation Nesta and as Head of Research and Programme Lead at Danish cross-government innovation unit MindLab. Jesper also holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology focusing on embedding human-centred innovation practices in public sector organizations.