Using examples from the energy transition, climate change mitigation and healthcare, Warren East, former CEO Rolls-Royce & ARM, will explore the interplay of novel technologies and major societal challenges, as well as the obvious and less obvious barriers to the take up of new ideas.
The first talk in a new termly series of discussions with industry leaders and policymakers, run jointly by the Oxford Martin School and the Saïd Business School.
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Warren East CBE FRS FREng
Executive in Residence, Saïd Business School & former CEO Rolls-Royce & ARM
After an Engineering degree Warren spent 11 years at Texas Instruments before joining ARM in 1994.
He was appointed to the board in 2000, and CEO in 2001. After some 30 years in the semiconductor industry he left ARM in 2013, having developed ARM into the world’s leading semiconductor IP licensing company. By 2022 ARM chip volumes were in excess of 30 billion units per annum.
He was appointed CEO at Rolls-Royce in April 2015 with a mission to modernise, grow capacity alongside profitability and determine future direction for a net zero world. He left Rolls-Royce at the end of 2022, having achieved record cash flows, restructured to significantly enhance operational gearing and then steered the business successfully through the Covid-19 disruption. Under Warren’s leadership Rolls-Royce also achieved with world speed record for Electric flight and demonstrated Hydrogen combustion in an existing aero engine.
He has also served on the boards of several major engineering and technology companies since 2007, including BT Dyson and Micron, and is currently a non-executive at ASML and Tokamak Energy. He is a FIET, FREng, FRS, Dsit FBCS, and CBE.
Professor Charles Godfray
Director, Oxford Martin School
Professor Sir Charles Godfray was appointed Director of the Oxford Martin School on 1 February 2018.
Professor Godfray is a population biologist with broad interests in the environmental sciences and has published in fundamental and applied areas of ecology, evolution and epidemiology. He is interested in how the global food system will need to change and adapt to the challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, and in particular in the concept of sustainable intensification, and the relationship between food production, ecosystem services and biodiversity. In 2017 he was knighted for services to scientific research and for scientific advice to government.
As well as leading the School, Professor Godfray is also a lead researcher of the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and the Oxford Martin Restatements project, a new approach to providing succinct summaries of scientific evidence around highly contentious topics.
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