Tim Minshall

Tim Minshall is an engineering academic who works at the University of Cambridge as the inaugural Dr. John C. Taylor Professor of Innovation, head of the Institute for Manufacturing, and Fellow of Churchill College. He is an awardwinning professor who researches and writes about manufacturing, innovation, and skills, and regularly delivers talks on these topics nationally and internationally. He also delivers outreach programs to raise awareness of manufacturing among primary and secondary schoolchildren and their teachers. Before becoming an academic, he worked in the UK and Japan as a language teacher, program manager supporting tech start-ups, and freelance writer.