I'm co-head of international innovation at Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation. Nesta's international team examines new global trends and practices in innovation, with an emphasis on emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil and Malaysia. The team works around the world to build knowledge, programmes, resources and networks for innovation that will help the UK to flourish in a rapidly changing global economy. I lead on the Nesta-led executive development programme for innovation policymakers, the Global Innovation Policy Accelerator. Prior to Nesta, Benjamin was Head of Open Innovation at the London-based think tank the Big Innovation Centre, and a Senior Researcher at The Work Foundation. He holds a PhD from Henley Business School at the University of Reading, which focused on the evaluation of management and leadership development programmes.