Professor Andrew Graves, BA, DPhil, is a mechanical engineer and political scientist and began his industrial career as a trainee manager with the Rootes Group in 1966.  His passion for racing motor cycles and automobiles then led to his involvement with Formula 1 and 2 racing as development engineer and team manager.  He worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex from 1985 where he undertook research with MIT's International Motor Vehicle Programme on R&D and technology issues and subsequently became European Director to the programme.  In 1994 he moved to the University of Bath's School of Management and now holds the Chair for the Management of Technology.

Professor Graves will give a talk entitled: 'Whatever happened to British Manufacturing and how will we make a living in the future?'