Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation

Director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation Programme

Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Social Innovation

Professor Neil Stott is Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is also the Director of the Business School's Centre for Social Innovation, and is Director of the Master of Studies in Social Innovation programme. His research interests include social innovation, social purpose organisations and the practice of social organising. Professor Stott is part of the Organisational Theory and Information Systems subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, which is engaged with cross-disciplinary themes, such as leadership.

Previously Professor Stott was Head of Community Development at Canterbury City Council, Principal Officer (Community) at Cambridge City Council and a youth and community worker for a number of children's charities including Mencap, Elfrida Rathbone and Contact-a-Family in London. Until April 2015 he was the Chief Executive of the Keystone Development Trust, one of the largest development trusts in the country delivering community development, social enterprises and property development.

He graduated from Bradford University with a BA (Hons) in Peace Studies (1983). More recently he completed a Post-Graduate Certificate in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University in 2003, a Masters in Community Enterprise at the Judge Business School in 2005 and a Doctorate in Professional Studies at Middlesex University (2012).

Professor Stott was previously Chief Executive of Keystone Development Trust, delivering community and property development and social enterprises in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, a Fellow in Clayton State University’s Center for Social Innovation & Sustainable Entrepreneurship, and an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University, Newfoundland.