Biography

Professor Greenfield is a pioneering scientist, an entrepreneur, a communicator of science and policy adviser Tomorrow’s Leaders – How 21st-Century Technological And Scientific Advances Will Change The Way Leaders Need To Think And Act Apart from her primary research where she heads a group of 18 scientists studying Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Disease.

One of her great skills is to convey her passion about science, and particularly, her wonder at the complexity of the human brain, in a way that everyone can understand.

Baroness Susan Greenfield is a pioneering scientist, an entrepreneur, a communicator of science and policy adviser. She is both Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University, where she heads a multi-disciplinary research group exploring novel brain mechanisms linked to neurodegeneration.

Her scientific career has taken her to top institutions in France and the USA as well as the UK. As an indication of the recognition of her work in the physical basis of the mind, she has been awarded 28 Honorary Degrees from British universities.

In 1999 she gave the prestigious Richard Dimbleby Lecture, broadcast on BBC1. A most accomplished speaker, Susan is regularly invited to lecture to a wide range of audiences around the globe.