Dr Gary Walpole

Dr Gary Walpole is Co-Director of the Regional Innovation & Regeneration Centre at Cardiff Met and Director of Circular Economy Innovation Communities (CEIC).  The award winning CEIC project has created a circular economy ecosystem across South Wales through regional collaborative innovation networks in the form of programme communities of practice to support organisations to develop new service solutions that implemented Circular Economy (CE) principles. He has thirty years’ experience in business and education, with twenty-five designing and delivering innovation and leadership programmes for Higher Education Institutions. Gary is a strategic organization development practical academic with an outstanding record of conceptualizing and leading multi-partner, multi-million-pound projects.  He has in-depth knowledge and skills of designing and delivering Circular Economy, innovation and leadership programmes that develop organisations, facilitate change and enhance productivity.  He has published widely on leadership, innovation and organisational development.