Dr Chris Yapp

Chris has been in the IT Industry for over 25 years at Honeywell, ICL, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. He has been involved in Public Sector IT for the majority of that period and has been involved in many UK Government policy and advisory groups on strategic and management aspects of IT.

Chris is a Patron of NACE, a Trustee of World E-Citizens, an Associate of the think tank, DEMOS, and also a former Director of the Internet Society of England. He is a past Trustee of the School for Social Entrepreneurs and the British committee of the UK-Canada colloquia. He is a frequent public speaker and writer on the e-agenda. A graduate of Magdalen College Oxford, he holds an honorary D.Tech from Glasgow Caledonian University. He is a Fellow of the RSA.