Simon Harwood
Prof. Simon Harwood is Strategy and Technology Director at Leonardo UK, where he leads the development and delivery of next-generation sovereign defence and security capabilities. Simon is helping to achieve the UK’s operational readiness in partnership with SMEs, academia and government. Previously Director of Defence and Security at Cranfield University, Simon has also held senior roles at Boeing and the UK Ministry of Defence. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hull along with advanced education at Harvard Business School and the University of Cambridge.
How the UK builds defence advantage through scale-up
Professor Simon Harwood, Strategy and Technology Director at Leonardo UK, argues that closer collaboration between primes and scale-ups is key to turning UK innovation into deployable defence capability.
