Seminar: Complacency or Change? Which is Oxford’s Answer to Innovation Challenges?

Date: Thursday 3 December 2015
Time: 17:00 - 18:00
Venue
Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3QT

The second seminar in the Pharmacology Entrepreneurship and Business seminar series featured Robert Madelin, Senior Advisor for Innovation in the European Commission.

Robert Madelin is currently working with a number of senior policy makers on the question of how to best ensure that scientific advice has the appropriate visibility in the policy making process.

Robert read French and History at Magdalen College, Oxford and then studied at the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in Paris. He joined the British Civil Service in 1979, serving mainly in London and then in Brussels (as First Secretary, External Relations, UK Permanent Representation to EC) before joining the Commission in 1993.

A Biomedical and Life Sciences Group event co-hosted with the University of Oxford Department of Pharmacology.