Dr. Gary Walpole - Director of CEIC, Cardiff Met University

Dr Gary Walpole is Director (I&E) of the Regional Innovation & Regeneration Centre at Cardiff Met and Director of Circular Economy Innovation Communities (CEIC).The CEIC project creates regional collaborative innovation networks in the form of programme communities of practice to support organisations to develop new service solutions that implemented Circular Economy (CE) principles. He has thirty years’ experience in business and education, with twenty years in knowledge transfer roles in Higher Education Institutions. Gary is a strategic organization development practical academic with an outstanding record of conceptualizing and leading multi-partner, multi-million-pound projects.He has in-depth knowledge and skills of designing and delivering Circular Economy, innovation and leadership programmes/interventions that develop organisations, facilitate change and enhance productivity.