Profile
Professor Sam Medhat
PhD MPhil CEng FIET FRSC FCIM FCMI FRSA FIKE FIoD
Professor Medhat is the founding Chief Executive of Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange , the UK professional body for innovators and a leading provider of SciTech innovation and growth services to business, education and government. He is also the Founder of the STEM Foundation – an educational charity that has supported some 250 colleges in the UK and impacted positively the lives of over 700,000 students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In addition, Prof Medhat holds the following positions:
- Member of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.
- Visiting Professor to the University of University of Westminster.
- Visiting Professor to the University of St Mark and St John.
- Member of the ISO Innovation Management Committee.
- Member of the BSI Artificial Intelligence ART/1 Committee.
- Member of DEF/1 Defence Standardisation Committee.
- NED - I2P Ventures, Piece Future amongst others...
Professor Medhat led innovation accreditation and skills certification programmes in many multinational organisations such as Abellio, BAE Systems, Cross Rail, EDF Energy, GXO, Hitachi-Horizon Nuclear, Magnox, MBDA Missile Systems, Ministry of Defence (UK), NATO, QinetiQ, Panasonic, Raytheon, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Skanska Toyota, Thales amongst many others.
Prof Medhat also held many prominent academic and public positions including:
- IBM Professor of Concurrent Engineering
- Intergraph Professor of Electronic Design Automation
- Visiting Professor of STEM to the University of Suffolk
- College Governor (8 colleges in Oxfordshire & Berkshire)
- Member of the HEFCE Board s committee on Quality Assessment in Learning and Teaching
- Member of SEPnet (the South East of England Physics Network)
- Member of the Foundation Degree Forward Board
- Member of the University of Bristol's Court
- Adviser to the European Parliament
- Director of the DTI Microelectronics in Business for the SW of England
- Member of the Business and Community Advisory Board of the Joint Academic Information Systems Committee (JISC).
Professor Medhat experience covers national and international appointments including:
- Founding Director of the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB).
- Founding Principal of Dubai Polytechnic (now Dubai University).
- Vice President of Future Media PLC - a NASDAQ company.
- Head of University Research; and Head of School of Electronics at Bournemouth University.
- CEO / Board Member of many technology start-ups. Professor Medhat has been responsible for establishing 9 business start-ups.
Professor Medhat has published widely and holds a number of invention patents. His PhD is in microelectronics and was sponsored by Siemens Defence Systems. Medhat is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange. In 2019, Prof Medhat was elected as a Member of the US Cosmos Club (founded in 1878 in Washington DC), in recognition of his distinguished achievements in science and innovation.
