Mariana Mazzucato (born June 16, 1968) is an economist with dual Italian–US citizenship.
She is a professor at University College London in Economics of Innovation and Public Value and she is the founder/director of their Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP).
She is also a member of the Scottish Government's Council of Economic Advisers and South Africa's Economic Advisory Council.
In 2019, she joined the UN Committee for Development Policy.
Mazzucato is the author of The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs.
private sector myths and The Value of Everything: making and taking in the global economy.
In 2016, Mazzucato co-edited a book, Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth with Michael Jacobs.
In 2013 the New Republic called her one of "the three most important thinkers about innovation".