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Alexandra (Alex) Bekker is a designer, researcher, and educator working at the intersection of strategic design, futures, governance, and social theory. Her practice explores the role of design in governance innovation – not only as a tool for improving policies and services, but as a means of reshaping relational infrastructures, institutional logics, and imaginaries of governance itself.

As a part-time lecturer in the School of Design Strategies, she develops teaching methods that equip students to critically interrogate the worlds they live in and build the literacies needed to co-create more just and care-centered futures.

She has collaborated with organizations including Dark Matter Labs, Berggruen Institute, RadicalxChange, Stanford University, Rockefeller Foundation, Omidyar Network, Partners for a New Economy, Deloitte, OECD, and UN agencies.

Degrees Held

MSc Strategic Design and Management, Parsons School of Design at The New School

MA Human Rights and Humanitarian Action, Sciences Po

LLM Law and Politics of International Security, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Professional Affiliation

Governance Futures Network

Recent Publications

Kaur, M., Buisman, H., Bekker, A., and C. McCulloch (2022), "Innovative capacity of governments: A systemic framework", OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, No. 51, OECD Publishing, Paris.

Monteiro, B., Buisman, H., Karle, C., and Bekker. A (2022), “Innovation Playbook”, OECD.

Research Interests

Social Design, Policy Design, Public Sector Innovation, Participatory Democracy, Futures, Collective Imagination, Prefigurative Design, Feminist and Care-Centered Design Practice

Portfolio

alexandrabekker.com

feministeconomies.com