Cathy Garner

Cathy Garner
CEO
Centre for the Management of Intellectual Property in Health Research and Development (MIHR)
United Kingdom

Dr Cathy Garner is currently Managing Director of Manchester: Knowledge Capital. Cathy has a background in university-business links, technology transfer and extensive experience of urban regeneration, education and knowledge-based business development.

Cathy is a Board Trustee of MIHR and was the founding CEO of MIHR until 2004. Cathy established and run the Research and Enterprise Office at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. She led the establishment of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise and was a founder director of the Scottish North American Business Council. She is a member of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) in the USA and served as a Board Member as their inaugural Vice President for International Relations.

Her career includes eight years of policy and research management in the public sector. She has acted as an advisor to the UK, Canada, Japan and South Africa on intellectual property matters and served on numerous Boards. She is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.

 

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