Dr Edward Brooks is Director of the Programme for Global Leadership at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project, and Co-founder of the Oxford SDG Impact Lab.
His work joins research in leadership studies, virtue ethics, and character development to the design and delivery of leadership programmes at the University of Oxford and institutions around the world.
Current projects focus on hope and multilateralism, resilience as a democratic civic virtue, exemplarity in public leadership, the role of AI in leadership development, and the role of universities in leadership development in lower- and middle-income countries.
Ed works extensively with the private sector, heading a £2.6m research project investigating the relationship between culture, character and leadership with a focus on finance, law and technology firms. He has collaborated with a number of United Nations organisations and currently leads the University of Oxford’s collaboration with United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI).
He is an Expert Advisor of the Leadership Excellence in Politics Initiative, an Advisory Board Member of the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics at the University of Navarra, and a Senior Fellow of the Educating Character Initiative at Wake Forest University.
His work has been cited in media outlets such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, Brunswick Review, and Starling Insights, and he has been named by global management network Thinkers 50 on their radar list of business and management thought leaders.