David Mair | From Data to Decision-Making

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David Mair (Joint Research Centre at the European Commission) is interviewed on evidence based policy making by Gaby Umbach (Director, GlobalStat, European University Institute).

Recorded at the conference 'Evidence-Based Policy-Making: from Data to Decision-Making', at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2018.

• Why is it important to have evidence in policy-making today?
• Based on your experience at the European Commission and the British Government, was there a turning point where complexity was confronted in a different way in policy-making? Did interdisciplinary approaches to decision-making become important recently?
• How can research centres contribute to providing decision-makers with an integrated package from a scientific perspective? What activities does the Joint Research Centre (JRC) run?
• Is the JRC interdisciplinary knowledge centres model the one of the future for traditional higher education (universities and research institutions) or a model for activities steered by organisations like the JRC?