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Tony Mears is a director in the UK National Health Service (NHS) specialising in strategy and innovation.
He is the author of ‘Innovation is Dead: dispatches from the front’ which seeks to deploy cross sector innovation for public sector good. He has previously been deputy director of innovation for a new hospital programme – and led the technology strategy, EU Exit negotiation, and launch policy at the UK Space Agency, including as a delegate to the UN and European Space Agency.
He has sat on the advisory board of wearable company WHOOP, has an MA in Political Communications, a BA in Archaeology, and resides in the South of England with his wife and two children.