Leadership and Advisors
The Leadership, Advisory Board and Innovation Fellows of the Big Innovation Centre provide strategic direction and intellectual leadership to the Centre’s research, policy engagement and innovation programmes.
Drawn from leading institutions across academia, business and government, they contribute expertise that informs the Centre’s work and international collaborations.
Executive Leadership
Professor Birgitte Andersen is CEO and Co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre and Professor of the Economics and Management of Innovation at Birkbeck, University of London. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her sustained contributions to social science research, leadership and impact.
Prof. Birgitte Andersen
CEO
Big Innovation Centre
Advisory Board
The Advisory Board of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence (APPG AI) provides specialist insight and supports the Group’s activities, contributing to the development of its work in collaboration with the APPG’s Parliamentary Officers.
Lawrence Turner
Founder
AIM Limited
Mark Taylor
Founder and CEO
Automated Analytics
Scott Steedman
Director of Standards
BSI Group
Ashley Braganza
Professor
Brunel University London
Daniel Wilson
Innovation & Intl. Policy Director
BT Group
Paul Dixon
Head of Public Sector
Capgemini UK
Markus Anderljung
Head of Policy
Centre for the
Governance of AI
Charles Kerrigan
Partner
Banking &
International Finance Team,
CMS Tax Law
Yatin Mahandru
Head of Public Sector
& Health
Cognizant
Sulabh Soral
Chief AI Officer
Deloitte
Edward Fu
Head of Government Affairs
Duolingo
Sarah Reynolds
Partner
EY Law
Jon Atkin
Co-founder and Chief Executive
Favom
Yogesh Joshee
Founder and CEO
GenAirate Technologies
Bianca Nobilo
Chief External Affairs Officer
IFS
Sara El-Hanfy
Head of AI & Machine Learning
Innovate UK
Chris Yiu
Director of Public Policy
Northern Europe
META
Samuel Steg
Leading Policy & Regulatory Compliance
Onfido
John Buyers
Partner
Osborne Clarke
Prof. David Leslie
Director of Ethics and Responsible
Innovation Research
Queen Mary University of London
Apoorv (AK) Kashyap
Head of Artificial Intelligence
Santander UK
Yu Xiong
Assoc Vice-President
SABMA
University of Surrey
Ben Johnson
Co-Founder and CTO
Uptitude
David Elcombe
Managing Director
WindWorkX
Innovation Fellows
Innovation Fellows are distinguished experts who contribute thought leadership and specialist expertise to the research, policy engagement and innovation initiatives of the Big Innovation Centre.
Barrister Flavia Kenyon
Innovation Fellow
Big Innovation Centre
David Swanson
Innovation Fellow
Big Innovation Centre
Lavine Irvine
Innovation Fellow
Big Innovation Centre
Daniel Wilson
Innovation & Intl. Policy Director
BT Group
Paul Dixon
Head of Public Sector
Capgemini UK
Markus Anderljung
Head of Policy
Centre for the
Governance of AI
Charles Kerrigan
Partner
Banking &
International Finance Team,
CMS Tax Law
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