Fellows

Steve Evans is the Director of the new EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability. He is also the director of the Centre for Industrial Sustainability at the IfM. Professor Evans helps organisations create and implement such structured responses to resolve a variety of problems. He spent 12 years in industry, rising to become Engineering Systems Manager at Martin-Baker Engineering. His industrial experience led to an emphasis on improving engineering performance and provided an excellent grounding for tackling complex, real-life issues. 

Professor Evans has over 20 years of academic experience which includes working collaboratively with world-leading industrial and academic institutions. His research seeks a deep understanding of how industry develops solutions that move us towards a sustainable future. He researches and conducts projects with organisations to improve their performance in various dimensions including: sustainable factories, food systems for people with reduced access to food, sustainable city re-generation design, sustainable design and operations for mainstream car manufacturers, cars with water for exhaust. 

David Howarth is Professor of Law and Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and former Head of the University’s Department of Land Economy. Prof Howarth’s research has covered both private law and public law and he is especially interested in issues of legal design (e.g. Law as Engineering: Thinking about what lawyers do (Elgar, 2014)). He teaches constitutional law, legislation, private law, comparative environmental law and law and economics, having previously taught company law, labour law and environmental policy. From 2012 to 2016 he founded and directed the University’s MPhil in Public Policy. He has been a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge since 1985.

Outside the University, Prof Howarth served as MP for Cambridge (2005-2010) having previously served as a Cambridge City Councillor for 17 years, for three of which he was Leader of the Council. From 2010 to 2018 he was a UK Electoral Commissioner. He became an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple in November 2018.

Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili, KSS KCSS is a world-renowned Iranian-born British scholar, collector, philanthropist, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador. He received his PhD in Islamic Art from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he was also awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 1992. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, where he is a Member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors. Over the course of five decades, Sir David has assembled eight of the world’s finest art collections comprising some 35,000 works, many of which have been exhibited at prestigious museums and institutions worldwide. Each work has been meticulously conserved, researched, catalogued, and published as part of what is considered to be one of the most ambitious art scholarship projects in modern history. Eighty of over a hundred planned volumes have already been published, led by Sir David and with contributions from the world’s leading experts in each respective field.

Sir David is also a pioneer of cultural philanthropy and cultural diplomacy. He is founder and chairman of the Khalili Foundation, which over the past three decades has been a global leader in promoting interfaith and intercultural relations. The Foundation has supported and driven a number of internationally recognised projects that use the power of art, culture and education to foster peace and unity. Key partners include UNESCO, the Commonwealth, Prince’s Trust, Aspen Institute and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. Sir David’s many honours and awards include Trustee of the City of Jerusalem and the High Sheriff of Greater London Award, as well as Knighthoods from Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI for his work in the pursuit of peace, education and culture among nations. He has also received the rank of Officier in the National Order of the Legion of Honour from the French President François Hollande at the Élysée Palace as well as a knighthood in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours “for services to interfaith relations and charity”.

 

Learn more about Professor Sir Nasser D. Khalili.

Kun-Chin Lin is a Professor of Military and Security Studies at the US Space Force and Adjunct Professor at SAIS-Johns Hopkins University. His research interests are the political economy of China, Eurasian geopolitics, and the space industrial policies of American security partners. He has published extensively on maritime powers in Asia, Chinese energy and transport infrastructure policies, and Asian regionalism and global governance.

Dr Lin was a University Lecturer in Politics and Tun Suffian College Lecturer and Fellow at the Gonville & Caius College, and directed the Centre for Rising Powers and the Centre on Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. His research has been supported by the British Academy, Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Korea Foundation, and Air University (USAF), etc. He is an editorial board member of Business and Politics, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, and Maritime Policy & Management, and was an associate fellow of the Chatham House in London.

Rajah Rasiah is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya. His policy-oriented work includes research in several countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Among his contributions to the benefit of society are his conceptualisation of technology, its link to development, and methodologies designed to capture clustering, technological capabilities and industrial policies. 

While the prime focus of his research is technology and international development, he has worked extensively on foreign investment, human capital, public health and environment. He was the 2014 recipient of the Celso Furtado prize from the World Academy of Sciences for advancing the frontiers of Social Science (Economics) thought. In 2017 he was appointed a Distinguished Professor in Economics by the High Education Ministry of Malaysia. Professor Rasiah was a principal author of the UNIDO’s 2009 flagship report, and an editor of the 2015 UNESCO Science Report. He has also led country technology and industrial reports for Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Viet Nam and Timor-Leste. His research and policy work has produced over 300 publications in international journals and books.

El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics & Policy. Professor Reisch is a behavioural economist and consumer researcher. My research interests focus on the theory and application of behavioural insights to promote behavioural change in individuals and organisations towards societal welfare and sustainable development. She have two decades of experience with high-level policy consulting on consumer behaviour and policy, including with the EU and World Bank, as we as governments worldwide.

Professor Reisch is the inaugural Director of the El-Erian Institute for Behavioural Economics and Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School and a member of the Economics and Policy Subject Group.

Nikhil Agarwal is India’s foremost expert on Startups, Innovation and Policy. He holds the dual charge of CEO of SIIC and AIIDE at IIT - Kanpur, the largest tech-incubator in the country India. Between 2015-2017 he was the the CEO of the Andhra Pradesh Innovation Society, Govt of Andhra Pradesh. He has earned his MPhil (Technology Policy) from University of Cambridge and PhD (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies) from University of Edinburgh. 

Dr Agarwal has founded businesses and advised firms on strategic matters for the last 20 years of his career. He sit on board of several successful startups and venture funds. He has also lectured at various universities including Virginia Tech Polytechnic & State University, University of Bradford and University of Cambridge, and he founded the Entrepreneur Café – a global movement spread in 110 cities and six continents, connecting over 45,000 entrepreneurs. His interviews, articles and work have received significant media interest, covered by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CNN Money, BBC Radio, The New York Times and Economic Times. Dr Agarwal has served on numerous international think tanks and holds leadership positions in global organisations such as WBAF.

Elizabeth Carriere OBE is a former British civil servant with extensive experience in international development. She served as Governor of Montserrat from 2015 to 2018. Carriere holds an MSc in Public Policy and Management from the University of London. Throughout her career, she held various senior positions with the Department for International Development (DFID), including postings in Indonesia, Jamaica, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and South Sudan. After leaving government service, she joined CARE as Managing Deputy Regional Director for the Great Lakes of Central Africa, overseeing operations in Uganda, Rwanda, DRC, and Burundi.

 Andrew Mitchell was a Minister of State in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) between 25 October 2022 and 5 July 2024. On 12 April 2024 he was given the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary. He was previously Secretary of State for International Development from May 2010 to September 2012. He was elected Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield on 7 June 2001. Education Andrew was educated at Rugby School and Jesus College, Cambridge where he studied history and was President of the Union. Career outside politics He served in the Royal Tank Regiment before joining Lazard, where he worked with British companies seeking large-scale overseas contracts. Political career After serving as a government whip between 1993 and 1995, Andrew served as Minister for Social Security from 1995 to 1997. While in opposition, he was Shadow Minister for Economic Affairs from 2003 to 2004 and Shadow Minister for Home Affairs from 2004 to 2005. He then served as Shadow Secretary of State for International Development until the 2010 election.
 

Steve McCauley is an executive leadership coach who uses his extensive and highly unusual blend of international experience as a CEO, executive, adviser, board member, dealmaker and entrepreneur, to support senior leaders to achieve articulated goals. He provides strategic and board-level advice and insight to multinational clients in media, communications and entertainment.

Mr McCauley began his career as a professional performer in the music industry, and went on to found a successful music programming company. Moving to Seattle, he ran an international business for AEI Music Network and became president of a NASDAQ-listed digital entertainment company in LA, a forerunner of streaming services. He gained extensive knowledge of new media and digital technology and developed an international perspective about the impact of new technology and the rapid pace of change that was emerging. He has been CEO of a software company, he has worked advising the BBC, and has been president of eMusic Europe.

Robbie Stamp (BA Hons Cantab.) is Chief Executive at Bioss International. Mr Stamp works at the intersection of the governance of human institutions and complex adaptive systems especially now in relation to the governance of Artificial Intelligence. He is especially interested in the power dynamics that underlie much of the current discourse about AI Ethics. 

Mr Stamp chairs DemocracyNext, an NGO supporting Sortition based Citizen Assemblies. He is on the International Advisory Board of Past International which promotes and preserves Africa’s paleontological heritage, and promotes research and education about shared origins, diversity and stewardship. He sits on the BSI's National Standing Committee on AI, which is SC42 (for Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, that is no accident!), where he contributed to ISO recommendations on Board Governance and AI and is contributing to a paper for the IEEE on AI and Power. 

He is the founder of AI Goosebumps Club, thought experiments about AI, which lead towards a philosophy of AI and our emerging relationship with it.