Current projects
- I am searching for the topic — and sponsor — of the next Longitude Prize, the world's most prestigious technology prize.
In the past
- I was programme director for the Aqualunar Challenge, a UK Space Agency innovation challenge to purify water on the Moon.
- I was programme director for the Manchester Prize, the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology's prize on AI for the environment.
- I designed R&D funding initiatives on robotics, drones, agriculture, dementia, paralysis and more.
- I advised the governments of Canada, Chile, Brazil and the UAE on innovation policy.
- I was seconded into the civil service.
- I worked on a project to unleash flying cars in cities.
- I did press and public outreach for the Hubble Space Telescope and wrote a coffee table book about it.
- I was production manager and subeditor for a political magazine.
Things I have written
- Longform content on Medium, mostly on science and technology policy.
- Content on Challenge Works and Nesta sites, mostly on challenge-driven innovation.