Professor Tim Bedford is Associate Principal for Research and Innovation at the University of Strathclyde and Professor of Decision and Risk Analysis within the Management Science Department of Strathclyde Business School. He has worked at the University of Strathclyde since 2001, and previously worked at Delft University of Technology and at Cambridge University. He holds a PhD in Pure Mathematics from the University of Warwick, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Mons for his work in Risk Analysis. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland’s national academy. Tim is active in supporting research and innovation policy development through his work on the Universities Scotland Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee, and spent 6 years on the Scottish Funding Council Research and KE committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of CESAER, the Association of European Universities of Science and Technology, and chairs the CESAER Taskforce on Innovation.