Dr Alan Smith (BSc., PhD., FLS, CChem, FRSC, FIMMM) was a Research Associate and lecturer at the University of East Anglia (1970-1972) before spending 25 years in industry (Laporte/Interox, BDH/Merck, and BIP). At BDH, he was a Board member running the Advanced Materials business (1987-1991). At Laporte, he was Head of Group Technology, and a member of the acquisition team (1991-1996).
In addition, he was a member of the Foresight Materials Panel for UK Government and prior to that he was on the Chemicals Panel. For academia, he was a member of the Industrial Advisory Boards for Imperial College and Bristol University, and until recently, was a visiting tutor on Innovation and R&D Management for an MSc course at the University of Strathclyde, and a visiting lecturer for an MSc course at the University of Nottingham on Surface Engineering.
Dr Smith has been President of the Industrial Affairs Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and an active participant in affairs of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
For Government, he has been Chairman of the COMIT Faraday Partnership (electronic displays), and Board Member of the IMPACT Faraday Partnership (colloids and formulation science). He was the Programme Director for the Manufacturing Molecules Initiative (MMI) for the DTI; Programme Coordinator for a Foresight-LINK Award, ACORN, on nanoparticles (2001-2004); and Associate Director of the MNT Network, a Government initiative on nanotechnology (2004-2007).
He has been an advisor to the South African Government on roadmapping and strategy, and has facilitated roadmaps for the European Commission (SMART FP6 initiative). In total, he has been the author and facilitator of over 40 technology roadmaps in a variety of sectors, and has had a number of publications about roadmapping and strategies.
He has also been the author of numerous papers on nanotechnology, and he lectures frequently on the topic at conferences and at UK Trade and Investment meetings abroad.
He is a Fellow of the following learned societies: Royal Society of Chemistry, Linnean Society, and Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
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