Benjamin Reid
Nesta, UK
Benjamin Reid is head of the International Innovation team within Nesta's Research, Analysis and Policy division, examining and promoting new global trends and practices in international collaboration for innovation. He leads Nesta's sixteen-'emerging powers'-country innovation policy collaboration programme, the Global Innovation Policy Accelerator, and its northern European digital skills policy programme, Digital Frontrunners. At Nesta he has also led projects to support the Malaysian government on business innovation investment, and on UK-China collaborations for innovation between small and medium enterprises.
Prior to Nesta, Benjamin was Head of Open Innovation at the Big Innovation Centre, and a Senior Researcher at UK think tank The Work Foundation. He worked on projects ranging from corporate and government open innovation, to youth employment, social media at work, the creative industries, the changing employment deal, and design innovation policy.
He also worked for nine years as a researcher and lecturer at Henley Business School, teaching people management, innovation and research methods on their global MBA and DBA programmes. He holds a PhD from Henley Business School at the University of Reading, which focused on the evaluation of management and leadership development programmes.