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Dr Chris Brauer

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Dr Chris Brauer

Position

Senior Lecturer in Innovation, Programme Director, MSc Management of Innovation

Department

Institute of Management Studies

Email

brauer (@gold.ac.uk)

Dr Chris is a practitioner-first public academic focused on AI, lean and green economy, and human behaviour

Dr Chris Brauer is Director of Innovation in the Institute of Management Studies (IMS) at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is a Canadian-born academic and entrepreneur living and working in London. He revels in the intersections of disciplines and boundaries including those between industry and academic and those between academic disciplines.His research has been covered in over 400 media outlets worldwide including the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC News, Daily Mail, BBC Click, China Central TV (CCTV), Globo, CBC, CNN, and CNBC. His ongoing practical experiences on the front lines of innovation, disruptive growth opportunities, and wicked problems facing society and the economy informs his teaching and research.

Chris Brauer is Chairman of Innovation and member of the advisory board at Edelman. He is global strategy officer with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at AI strategy, solutions, and research firm Symmetry.

Teaching and supervision

Dr Chris is Director of the MSc Management of Innovation (MoI) programme and teaches Innovation Case Studies, Innovation Theory, and Project Management to an interdisciplinary and inquisitive bunch of UG and PG students.

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Clean/Green Economy
  • Innovation Theories, Models, and Practices
  • Positive Psychology - Creativity, Growth Mindset, and Flow
  • Energy Transition
  • Productivity
  • Workforce Transformations
  • Workforce/AI Skill Levelling and Pro-Worker
  • Human Behaviour & Behavioural Economics
  • Cybersecurity
  • Socioeconomic development, purpose and impact

Featured publications

2023: Electricity+
White Paper by the World Economic Forum’s Strategy Officers on Electricity as the Backbone of an Integrated Energy System

2022: Accelerating the Journey to Net Zero
This study explores where UK organisations are on their journey to net zero and sets out a practical blueprint of short- and long-term actions to help them accelerate progress.

2022: Accelerating Clean Industrial Electrification in the EU
Thought leadership by the World Economic Forum’s Strategy Officers in collaboration with Accenture and Aurora Energy Research

2020: Creating a Blueprint for UK Competitiveness
The research included in this report was conducted by Microsoft in partnership with Dr Chris Brauer on the post-Brexit and in-Covid competitive positioning of UK industry

2018: Maximising the AI Opportunity
How to harness the potential of AI effectively and ethically

Publications and research outputs

Report

Thesis

Media engagements

2022: Retailers falling behind in race to meet net-zero promises | Sydney Morning Herald
We interviewed leaders at 75 large retail organisations in Australia and New Zealand, all of which had a minimum of 200 staff, and 115 retail workers.

2022: Do ‘paradox industries’ actually need a resolution? | Shell Global
Why companies are focusing on an integrated approach to sustainable growth

2018: Play Day | BBC Click
The BBC profiles a social experiment at the Lego HQ on the impact of play on work using AI and wearable technologies to gether and analyse the data

2016: Boards, Execs, lack Cyber Savvy to Handle Threats | WSJ
Coverage in the Wall Street Journal of research exploring the readiness and awareness of NASDAQ-listedc company boards for emerging cyber threats

2015: What can we learn from Sports Science? | FT Business
Dr Brauer discusses with FT business journalist of the year Sarah O'Connor what organisations can learn from Sport Science