Alan Hughes

University of Cambridge

Alan Hughes

Alan Hughes is Director of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) and Margaret Thatcher Professor of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge. He was from 2000 to 2003 Director of the National Competitiveness Network of the Cambridge-MIT Institute. His research interests are concerned with industrial and technology policy; the measurement of innovation; growth, innovation and finance, with special emphasis on SMEs, corporate governance and evaluation of industrial and business support policy. Professor Hughes has been an advisor to HM Treasury, HM Inland Revenue, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Bank of England, Eurostat, the International Labour Organisation, the National Consumer Council, and the UN World Institute for Development Economic Research. In 2004 he was appointed by the Prime Minister to membership of the Council for Science and Technology, the UK's senior advisory body in this area.