Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE, FREng

Following an early career in industry Mike Gregory was the was the founder member of the team which established the IfM in 1998. Linking science, engineering, management and policy and integrating education, research and practice the IfM now has over 230 staff and research students and a further 100 undergraduate and Masters students. He retired as Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering and of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and now chairs the Babbage Policy International Forum..

Mike Gregory’s work is closely linked with industry and government and he has published in the areas of manufacturing strategy, technology management, international manufacturing and manufacturing policy.

External activities have included membership of various government and institutional committees. He has served as Executive Director of the Cambridge MIT Institute, Springer Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, and acting Director of the Cambridge Institute for Continuing Education. He was one of the founding Directors of the UK High Value Manufacturing Catapult and President of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR).

His current activities are focussed on the Babbage Forum, an international group of senior figures from engineering, economics and management. The Forum holds annual meetings of industrial innovation policymakers in China, Europe Asia and USA which address emerging challenges and practices and inform an annual plenary meeting in Cambridge.

He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge where he is SCR President and and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, where he has been a Trustee.