Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Michelle Donelan has selected Mr Stian Westlake as the next Executive Chair of ESRC.
Mr Westlake is currently Chief Executive of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and is former Executive Director of Policy and Research at Nesta.
Mr Westlake’s research interests include the economics and politics of innovation, research and technology. He is co-author of ‘Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy’ and ‘Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy’.
He has been responsible for a number of projects relating to data and evidence, including the RSS’s COVID-19 Task Force, the Alliance for Useful Evidence, the Innovation Growth Lab and the Innovation Index.
