Koi Tū is an independent, non-partisan think tank focused on long-term, complex problems challenging our future.

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Future society

Crowd of people walking street wearing masks during covid19 coronavirus pandemic
Perspectives
11.12.2024  

Covid helped polarise us: we need to fix the divisions

Social cohesion & resilience
speech
08.11.2024  
Academic Freedom
Social cohesion & resilience
update
18.10.2024  
Trust in the police: Mark Evans to lead key research
Social cohesion & resilience
View of Flax plants by the coast, with the sun rising and backlighting the plants
media release
25.09.2024  
Citizens to help make decisions on land use
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Close up of woman hands using laptop checking smart phone at night at home
Updates
02.12.2024  

Dr Felicia Low on Australia banning social media for teens

report
28.11.2024  
Searching for utopia: what our education system must confront and what it could be
Education
media release
28.11.2024  
New Koi Tū report calls for bold overhaul of NZ’s education system
Education
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perspective
07.11.2024  
Mental health challenges need evidence, not ego
Youth mental health

Navigating change

Overview of Auckland city at night, taken from to top of a mountain.
Perspectives
23.12.2024  

State of the city: Auckland must foster innovation, economic growth to move forward

Long-term thinking
Technology futures
speech
04.12.2024  
The potential of innovation and new techniques to reduce agricultural emissions
Sustainability
Close up of the ends of fibre optics
update
29.10.2024  
Science diplomacy and the rise of technopoles
Technology futures
speech
30.08.2024  
The day the news dies - Raising the Bar event
Information environment

Informing policy

Overview of Auckland city at night, taken from to top of a mountain.
Perspectives
23.12.2024  

State of the city: Auckland must foster innovation, economic growth to move forward

Long-term thinking
Technology futures
Group of business people sitting in a line at a panel.
speech
21.11.2024  
Opening remarks to the World Science Forum 2024, Budapest
Science diplomacy
Flags of UN and EU stand in European council Building at Brussels, Belgium.
speech
21.11.2024  
Advancing science diplomacy through the International Decade of Sciences for Sustainable Development
Science diplomacy
speech
08.11.2024  
Academic Freedom
Social cohesion & resilience

Our themes

Future society

Social cohesion & resilience
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Wellbeing
Education
Youth mental health

Navigating change

Information environment
Sustainability
NZ’s place in the world
Technology futures

Informing policy

Long-term thinking
Risk assessment
Evidence to policy
Science diplomacy
Trust in science

Our people

Sir PeterGluckman

Sir Peter Gluckman

Director

Dr Anne Bardsley

Deputy Director

Hema Sridhar

Senior Research Fellow (Government Relations, Technology and Foresight)

Dr Tatjana Buklijas

Associate Director – Academic

Dr Kristiann Allen

Associate Director – Policy and International Engagement
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