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THE JUDGING PANEL Helen Goulden, Nesta, Chair of the panel Helen is Executive Director of Nesta’s Innovation Lab, where she oversees the design and delivery of programmes to test new models for supporting and scaling social and environmental innovation with a particular focus on digital and open innovation. This work includes the Centre for Challenge Prizes, Creative Economy, Digital Education and our work to increase charitable giving. Before joining Nesta, Helen worked in the private sector developing digital strategies and solutions for global corporate clients. She spent five years consulting in the Cabinet Office, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Communities and Local Government, developing national innovation programmes for local government and leading research and product development for interactive television services.
Jane Burston, NPL Jane is Head of the Centre for Carbon Measurement based at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Previously Jane was Founder and CEO of Carbon Retirement, a social enterprise reforming emissions trading and carbon offsetting. In 2011 she was named in Management Today’s ‘35 high–flying women under 35’ list and as Square Mile magazine’s ‘Social Entrepreneur of the Year’. Jane has been selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, alongside numerous Professors, Ministers and business leaders from around the world.
Peter Childs, Imperial College Peter Childs is the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design at Imperial College London, having taken up this chair in 2008 and leads the Design Engineering group. His interests include the application of creative tools; mechanical and product design; desalination; sustainable energy component, concept and system design. He was formerly the director of InQbate, the HEFCE funded Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Creativity, director of the Rolls–Royce supported University Technology Centre for Aero–Thermal Systems and a professor at the University of Sussex. His role at Imperial involves being the joint course director for the Innovation Design Engineering degree at the Royal College of Art and Imperial and working with Design London.
