Prof. John CRAWFORD

Professor of Strategy and Technology, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

(PhD, Theoretical Astrophysics, University of London, 1988) has over 30 years of experience in soil systems science. He is currently Chair in Strategy and Technology at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow and is partnering with multinational corporates to deliver global solutions to the climate and environment crisis. He was previously Science Director at Rothamsted Research in the UK. In 2015, he established and was interim CEO of the £13M UK Centre for excellence in agricultural big data and metrics of sustainability, Agrimetrics. His research has focused in mathematical and computational analysis of organization in soil, cells, ecological communities and social systems. Grantsmanship exceeds $50M, and he has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers with >10k citations. He was awarded a Fellowship of the IMA in 2003 for contributions to mathematics and a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2007 for contributions to science.