Prof. Gerard George - Director (Rajiv Gandhi Centre), Imperial College, London

Professor Gerard George is Deputy Principal (Faculty) and Director, Rajiv Gandhi Centre, Imperial College, London. The Centre facilitates Imperial College's strategic commitments in India for joint research initiatives and educational programmes in innovation and entrepreneurship. He is co-investigator in five-year-long ‘Energy for Development’ collaborative project with Southampton University that studies the effects of rural electrification, community development and social enterprise. Professor George serves as a non-executive director of India Infrastructure Financing Corporation (UK) Limited, which provides dollar denominated financing for capital equipment in large Indian infrastructure projects such as power generation, urban mass transit and ports.

He has served as the faculty director of the Institute of Technology, London Business School. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he directed the Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship Programme. Professor George has published several articles in leading scholarly journals. His work investigates business models, organisational design and its implications on innovation and entrepreneurship in multiple settings.

He holds a PhD degree from Virginia Commonwealth University, MSc (Hons) degree in biological sciences and a master’s degree in management studies from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India. Professor George was awarded a professorial fellowship from Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to work on resource-constrained or inclusive innovation.