Calum is currently Head of Agriculture and Food at Innovate UK. He has led substantial publicly funded programmes for applied research across the AgriFood sector. Calum’s career spans technical and business consultancy as well as agricultural banking. He currently sits on several strategic groups including Defra’s external R&D panel, the Agricultural Productivity Task Force, the Agri-TechE Stakeholder Panel, the AHDB Sustainability Strategy Steering Group and the LEAF Network Advisory Board.