Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business and Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a fellow at St John’s College. An expert on business-government relations, sustainable capitalism, and corporate reporting and auditing, Professor Ramanna studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. His scholarship has won numerous awards, including the Journal of Accounting and Economics Best Paper Prize, the Harvard Business Review McKinsey Award for “groundbreaking management thinking,” and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for “outstanding case-writing,” dubbed by the Financial Times as “the business school Oscars.” Professor Ramanna established the Case Centre on Public Leadership and the Transformational Leadership Fellowship at Oxford. From 2016 to 2023, he was director of the Blavatnik School’s Master of Public Policy programme that has educated over a thousand public leaders from about 120 countries. In 2022, he co-founded the non-profit E-ledgers Institute, where he serves as principal investigator, with a mission to advance energy abundance through robust accounting for emissions efficiencies. Previously, Professor Ramanna taught at the Harvard Business School in both the MBA and senior executive-education programmes. He has a doctorate from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.