• Professor Alan Alexander -ESRC Council

 

• Mr Mark Beatson - Director of Science and Innovation Analysis, DIUS

 

• Professor Sue Cox  -Dean of the Management School at Lancaster University

 

• Professor Dame Sandra Dawson - KPMG Professor of Management Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

 

• Professor David Gann - Chair in Technology and Innovation Management , Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London

 

• Lois Jacobs - President International, Jack Morton Worldwide

 

• Jennifer Edwards - Senior research Impact Manager, ESRC

 

• Dr Nicola Nicholls - Special Advisor, Charterhouse Development Capital

 

• Professor Vicky Pryce - Chief Economic Adviser and Director General Economics - DIUS

 

• Roger Siddle - Chief Executive, BPP Holdings plc

 

• Professor Howard Thomas - Dean, Warwick Business School

 

• Dr Peter Williams - Non-Executive Director, National Affordable Housing and Planning Unit, Department of Communities and Local Government

• John Wrathmell - HM Treasury

Head of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School, London.
Chairman, Think Play Do Group ltd
Group Innovation Executive, Laing O’Rourke plc

David holds the Chair in Innovation and Technology Management in the Imperial College Business School and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London. He is responsible for a large portfolio of research, with leading firms in design, manufacturing, engineering, construction IT and healthcare industries, including GSK, IBM, Atkins, Arup, BT, QinetiQ and BP. He has built an international team, ranked #1 in Europe for innovation and entrepreneurship by the Financial Times. David is a chartered civil engineer with a PhD in industrial economics. He previously held the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Innovative Manufacturing at Sussex University.

David has wide ranging experience working with firms, starting new businesses and advising on government policy. He co-founded the Think Play Do Group, an Imperial College spin-out specialising in innovation strategy and management. He is responsible for innovation strategy at Laing O’Rourke plc, the UK’s largest privately owned construction and civil engineering group, building Heathrow’s Terminal 5, jointly managing the 2012 Olympic development programme and building Al Raha in Abu Dhabi. He was adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister’s Construction Taskforce, and innovation adviser to Computer Science Corporation. He has been a member of eleven DTI science and technology expert missions to assess the development of new technology in Europe, Japan and the US.

He has authored a large number of academic papers and with Mark Dodgson and Ammon Salter he has recently published:

Think Play Do – technology, innovation and organization, Oxford University Press, 2005

Management of Technological Innovation, Oxford University Press.

For additional information relating to the AIM Executive Steering Committee, please contact Jacqueline Brown at – jacqueline.brown@cranfield.ac.uk

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