Elizabeth Garnsey, Camfed International Board Member
Elizabeth Garnsey is Reader in Innovation Studies at the Centre for Technology Management at the University of Cambridge. On graduating from Oxford, she did her doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University. She helped to set up the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge in the 1990s.
For the past 15 years Elizabeth has worked on new firms, clusters and industries emerging from the science base. She works closely with members of the high tech business community and is a founding member of the Greater Cambridge Partnership. She also spent two years on secondment at St John's Innovation Centre, the leading business incubator in Cambridge.
Elizabeth has advised the South African, Australian and Malaysian governments, the Bank of England and Treasury and presented evidence to Parliamentary Committees of the House of Commons and House of Lords on emerging industries. Elizabeth was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. She left the country as a small child but has retained a strong interest in African affairs.
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