Luke Georghiou - Biography#

Luke Georghiou is Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Management at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Until the end of 2024 he was Deputy President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University providing strategic leadership and operational management across the full range of university functions and directly responsible for innovation including engagement with business and commercialisation of intellectual property. He has been a non-executive director of the spin-out investment company Northern Gritstone which he helped to found and of the United Kingdom’s largest National Health Service hospital group, the Manchester University Foundation Trust where he chaired the Research, Innovation and Population Health Board Committee. In 2025 he chaired an EU Policy Support Function review of Business-Science Cooperation in Finland which was presented to the Prime Minister in June 2025. He is a member of the European University Association’s Innovation Expert Group having previously chaired the EUA Council for Doctoral Education for six years. In 2011 he was elected to the Academia Europaea. He has published extensively in leading journals on research and innovation policy and management.