Director External affairs and government relations at Bosch UK.

She holds B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical and Medical engineering from the University of Paderborn/Ulm, Germany. She was responsible for business development for telehealth in UK and Ireland. She has more than 6 years of experience in Software and hardware engineering in automotive industry.

She is a board member at BBF (Buckingham Business First); Success Essex Partnership; and she sets on the advisory board for UK5G.

Deputy Director of Innovation Ecosystem Strategy, Innovate UK

As Innovate UK’s Deputy Director for Innovation Ecosystem Strategy, Geeta’s key responsibility is to look across the innovation ecosystem to join up the key players to ensure Innovate UK and its partners are maximizing impact. She leads on design and designing innovation systems.

Until recently Geeta was Innovate UK’s Head of Economics and Insights leading on evaluation and impact, strategic data insights as well as research. Geeta sat on several boards including:the Productivity Institute advisory board; LSE’s Programme on Innovation and diffusion; BEIS’s COVID 19 Evaluation Board; Warwick University’s Global Research Priority Board; Innovation Caucus, Enterprise Research Centre; NESTA’s Innovation Growth Laboratory.

Before joining Innovate UK, Geeta spent 5 years at the Construction Industry Training Board as their Head of Economic insights, lead the of reforming its funding strategy programme and levy strategy. She has also spent 6 years as a sell side economist in a leading Asian brokerage covering emerging markets.

Geeta Started her career as fast stream economist in at the Foreign Commonwealth office covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR).

She was previously Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. Before that she was Partner at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector.

She is Visiting Professor at BCU and King’s College, London, is a Fellow and Council member of the UK Academy for Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and a Companion of the British Academy of Management.

She is a member of the newly reconstituted Economic Advisory Council of the British Chambers of Commerce , on the Advisory Group of the Betters Statistics CIC, and is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on business ethics . Her books include: “Greekonomics: The Euro crisis and Why Politicians Don't Get It”; “It's the Economy, Stupid- Economics for Voters”, with Ross and Urwin; Redesigning Manufacturing”, with Nielsen and Beverland”; and “Women vs Capitalism”. Her latest co-authored book, “How to be a Successful Economist”, has just been published by Oxford University Press.

Chair, Virgin Group and Co-convenor, UK Trade & Business Commission

Peter has chaired Virgin Group since 2009 and currently also acts as chair for Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Hotels as well as for Agilyx AS, a leading chemical recycling company.

He has over 40 years’ experience in business management and investment banking and brings knowledge and understanding of the international economy and impacts on business and international trade.

Former Chief Executive, Siemens

Juergen Maier is an Industrialist and the former Chief Executive of Siemens UK, a position he held from July 2014 to December 2019. Over his 33 year career with Siemens he held a number of senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany. He built Siemens UK into a R&D led engineering powerhouse, significantly contributing to net zero goals and bringing high value jobs across the UK.

Juergen now Chairs the Digital Catapult and has contributed to the creation of a more focused approach to UK's industrial and innovation strategies. He founded the national Made Smarter programme that is driving industrial digitalisation into UK's manufacturing base and supporting more investment in research and innovation . He advises tech start-up and scale-up businesses which are a key part of the industrial ecosystem creating UK's green 4th Industrial revolution. In that capacity, Juergen chairs the Manchester Graphene Company.

Juergen has received honorary doctorates and professorships from a number of UK Universities including visiting professorships at the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Nottingham Trent University.