Dr. Ian Campbell is VP of KAUST National Transformation Institute (NTI). He collaborates with the University researchers and leadership to help accelerate the technology and innovation economy in the Kingdom. He also supports the University’s forward vision to leverage KAUST science and innovation to make an impact beyond the walls of the campus itself, creating collaborations and identifying opportunities where KAUST can contribute. In order to support Saudi Arabia's economic diversification, the NTI seeks to bring together people and resources for impactful projects, delivering solutions that benefit the Kingdom and beyond. A key measure of success is effecting transformative change through enhancing research commercialization and technology development and deployment.

Career before joining KAUST: Executive Chair of Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, in 2020. He also directed Health and Life Sciences. Led the initiative to secure Covid-19 response package from the British government in 2020, to support thousands of UK businesses to survive and thrive through the pandemic.

Dr. Campbell has extensive entrepreneurial and business experience in the healthcare sector. Before Innovate UK, he was CEO of Arquer Diagnostics, which focuses on bladder and prostate cancer diagnosis. Before this, he spent 15 years in a variety of executive management roles within the health and life science sector.