I’m CEO of MedilinkWM, a Life Science industry association which provides specialist business support to companies selling products and services within the medical technologies, biotechnology market and pharmaceutical sectors.  MedilinkWM works in partnership with UKTI to deliver international trade missions to showcase the UK’s life sciences capability.
The UK’s life sciences expertise was very evident at [...]

I was delighted to welcome the UAE Ambassador and his First Secretary to the North East last week. They visited Newcastle and Durham and had a programme of events ranging from a cultural overview given by Newcastle Gateshead Initiative, to lunch at the Baltic Arts Centre with 60 or 70 business guests. They also visited Durham [...]

This has been a fascinating trip, and I have learned a lot about attitudes and concerns over climate change adaptation.
Life is not about sustainability in the sense of keeping things as they are – it is about the management of change.  Nothing remains the same forever, for example I am told the gulf will become [...]

This seminar was different again – and probably the best yet of our series of panel discussions.  Of course Dubai and UAE have an excellent record on green engineering, epitomised by one of our panellists (Dr Afshin Afshari, Head of Energy Management, Masdar City) but all the ‘local’ panel members, including Keith Clarke, Chief Executive Officer [...]

We held the second in our series of panel debates – in an unseasonably rainy Los Angeles where the news is full of the downpours across the state, and in the same week that it was announced that California’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas programme has been put on hold, pending a legal dispute over a technicality [...]