Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Saïd Business School
Marc is an expert on innovation, strategy and transformation on the Management Faculty, University of Oxford and a Governing Body Fellow of Wolfson College since 2004. He is also Senior Research Fellow at the Technology and Management for Development Centre at Queen Elizabeth House and a member of the Management Committee, Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, DPIR. His research and teaching focus on innovation, institutions and infrastructure, with empirical work on emerging technologies in complex institutional context. By training, he is an economic and organizational sociologist, a specialist on technology strategy and organization-rich approaches to market dynamics.
Current research investigates comparative infrastructure and governance in knowledge –intensive industries and digital platform technologies. His earlier work analyzed the global growth of financial markets in support of high tech industries. He has an extensive research and engagement profile in social innovation and systems change. He works closely with Skoll Centre research and capacity- building projects. He is convenor and academic lead for the Ideas to Impact (I2I) program, a collaboration with the Oxford sciences divisions that engages postdocs with our executive MBA cohorts and with experts in entrepreneurship. He is Academic Director for the Oxford Fintech Lab. He is currently research lead for the EY Beacon Institute - Oxford collaboration on ‘Purpose-Led Transformation’.
Marc has broad, varied ties with Oxford alumni and their ventures. He is an advisor to startups founded by recent Oxford alumni (environmental services, digital transformation in banking, design consultancies, and women's leadership) and serves on the Advisory Boards for Global Thinkers Forum and The Civic Foundry. He works closely with Oxford Entrepreneurs by the Bay. He was a founding member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council ‘Economics of Innovation’.