Dr Robin Daniels

Robin studied at Loughborough University and as a visiting PhD student at Cambridge, taking Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees in engineering and organisational psychology. He was subsequently appointed as an Industrial Research Associate on an Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council project to develop new models for the identification and resolution of organisational and design conflict within product development processes. This was followed by an appointment as a Visiting Lecturer on the Loughborough Executive MBA and Ford MSc programmes. Subsequently, he moved to Cambridge as Director of the Manufacturing Leaders Programme, the Department of Engineering’s flagship executive MSt course, hosted at Wolfson. During this time he was also a PhD supervisor and an MPhil examiner.

He subsequently joined London Business School as Chief Operating Officer of their joint venture with University College London, the Centre for Scientific Enterprise Ltd. During this time he was also Dean & Director of the Chevening Technology Enterprise Scholarship, which included the development and leadership of post-doctoral taught modules with Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing, Imperial College Business School and London Business School. Three hundred post-doc scholars from twenty countries were hosted by twelve UK university departments as expert entrepreneurs in residence.

Robin then moved to be the founding CEO of the Norwich Research Park, Europe’s largest single-site life science and research cluster, before returning to the private sector. He is currently Chair of the Cyberspace Advisory Group with the newly formed Amazon Institute of Technology, developed in partnership with MIT and the University of São Paulo. He has been a Member of Wolfson College since 1999.