Afua

Afua is Head of Programmes at the Oxford Centre of Entrepreneurship and Innovation where she manages practical entrepreneurship programmes including the design, marketing and delivery of entrepreneurship courses, seminars, networks, projects and the business plan competition along with the Centre’s corporate relations. She also acts as an enterpreneurship trainer and mentor for venture creation activities and an EU Framework 6 project dedicated to management training for PhD research students in the biosciences.

Afua studied Biochemistry at Imperial College, Masters in Intellectual Property Law and 1 term stint in the Office for Technology & Trademark Licensing, Harvard University. Subsequently, she spent 4 years as a Contracts and Intellectual Property Manager at Royal Holloway, University of London negotiating confidentiality, licensing, media, consultancy, industrially sponsored research and service agreements alongside the intellectual property elements of large scale EU Research Consortium Agreements of 1 – 2 Million Euros. Her activities in technology transfer include patent management and facilitating the development of academic proposals for presentation to a £4 Million University Challenge fund managed by Cambridge-based fund managers.

Barbara

Barbara received her academic training at the University of Heidelberg, Johns Hopkins University/Baltimore, and Oxford University specializing in the history of science, medicine and technology (MSc). She  started her proferssional career by working for the press and public affairs division of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in Bonn and Berlin. From 2004-2006 she managed the 2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF2006) in Munich which was attended by 2100 delegates, among them over 400 science & media correspondents from Europe and abroad. Before joining Said Business School she worked for the Stifterverband fuer die Deutsche Wissenschaft in Berlin, a funding organisation dedicated to improve the collaboration between business and universities, in the field of science and innovation policy.

At OxCEI she supports the management of the SBS Venture Fund. She also manages a variety of the centre’s programmes and works on new concepts for activities in the field of entrepreneurship & innovation related topics.

Matthew

Matthew  joined the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in April 2008. His main role is to assist the centre raise its profile in healthcare innovation training and research through entrepreneurship courses for medical practitioners, healthcare management taught courses, and developing a healthcare research agenda. He liaises closely with Medical Science, Public Health and other divisions within the University.

After graduating in clinical medicine from UCL in 1998, Matthew worked in Northeast Brazil for several years as a general practitioner in a small rural community. He obtained his MSc (with distinction) in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and worked in polio eradication and HIV/AIDS treatment centres in Ethiopia and Mozambique respectively until 2005. He then joined Oxford University as a DPhil student in Public Health and has recently submitted his thesis. The subject of his research is strategic planning in non-governmental development organisations.