University College London

Geraint Rees

Vice Provost – Research, Innovation & Global Engagement

Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci is Vice-Provost for Research, Innovation and Global Engagement at UCL. He oversees a £3.56bn research portfolio and leads UCL’s innovation and commercialisation activity, including UCL Business, whose 95 active spinouts have raised £3.06bn in the last five years. UCL is consistently rated one of the UK’s leading universities for knowledge exchange.

Alongside this, Geraint drives the development of the Euston innovation district in North London and shapes UCL’s global partnerships strategy, with a particular focus on East Asia, South Asia, Europe and Africa.

A cognitive neurologist by training, he co-supervised Demis Hassabis’s PhD and served as Senior Scientific Advisor at Google DeepMind. He writes on AI and innovation policy for the Financial Times, the Sunday Times and other publications.

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