Ian W Campbell

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Dr Ian W. Campbell, OBE, is Senior Vice President of the National Transformation Institute (NTI) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he works with university researchers and leadership to help accelerate the digital economy in Saudi Arabia. A Scottish biochemist with a quarter-century of start-up, scale-up and consultancy experience, he moved to Saudi Arabia after serving as Executive Chair of Innovate UK, part of the United Kingdom's government innovation and research agency. At KAUST he leads a portfolio of Kingdom-wide strategic initiatives, including the KAUST Coral Restoration Initiative, industry-partnership development and the university's Translation Hub, and was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his services to innovation.