14 Nov 2018 | 5pm | Professor Sir Alan Wilson

Professor Sir Alan Wilson

Director, Special Projects at Alan Turing Institute

Sir Alan Wilson FBA, FRS is Director, Special Projects at The Alan Turing Institute (where he was Chief Executive from October 2016 until September 2018). He is Executive Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute at the Nuffield Foundation and Chair of the Home Office Science Advisory Council. In his research, as a mathematician and geographer, he works on the science of cities, building computer models that have applications in both planning and commercial sectors. He was Professor of Urban and Regional Systems in CASA, UCL from 2007 – 2018. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds from 1991 to 2004 when he became Director-General for Higher Education in the then DfES. From 2007-2013 he was Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and from 2013-2015, of the Lead Expert Group for the Government Office for Science Foresight Project on The Future of Cities. He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society. He was knighted in 2001 for services to higher education. His books include Knowledge power (2010), The science of cities and regions (2012), his five volume (edited) Urban modelling (2012), (with Joel Dearden) Explorations in urban and regional dynamics (2015), two edited volumes, Global dynamics and Geo-mathematical modelling (2016) and (with Francesca Medda and others) Collaborative approach to trade: enhancing connectivity in sea- and land-locked countries (2017).