Bio

Dr Hannah Rudman is Co-director of the Thriving Natural Capital Challenge Centre and Reader at SRUC. Her work focuses on how digital and data innovations can help the natural economy sector address the Grand Challenges we face – climate change, food safety and security, loss of biodiversity, etc. She is convenor of Trustablecredit.com, an adhocracy creating international open standardised processes for digital devices and their data measuring carbon, biodiversity and nature improvements. She is on the Executive Management Team of Agrimetrics, a UK Agritech Centre, and is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission's Research Executive Agency. Hannah's skills include establishing and maintaining strategic relationships and partnerships, and communicating the opportunities and impacts of digital data and emerging technologies with clarity to government, general audiences and industry. She is also an experienced non-executive director serving Highlands Rewilding, and board trustee, currently serving the National Galleries of Scotland. Hannah has led £multi-million national digital transformation and innovation programmes, publicly funded. Directed by Hannah's leadership, digital transformation was achieved in 250+ enterprises. Hannah advises governments on how to empower sectors to change and transform to maximise digital opportunities. She has made keynote addresses at international conferences and is a persuasive communicator, as a speaker, writer, interviewer and presenter of filmed case study documentaries. Hannah was an Associate Director at international firm BOP Consulting ‘17-‘18, establishing their Organisational Transformation capability. During '16-'17, she worked with global science and tech solutions company Leidos as Associate Principal Consultant, developing their Digital Transformation practice. Hannah is internationally renowned for her proven in the field & academically verified Digital Transformation framework. She was elected as Fellow of the British Computer Society in 2016, as Honorary Fellow at Durham University in 2015, and as Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce in 2007. Hannah founded and ran Envirodigital 2009-16, creating digital products that gave people agency to reduce carbon in their businesses and lives.