Sir Geoffrey Owen is Chief Adviser on Industrial Policy at Policy Exchange. He is Visiting Professor of Practice in the Managerial Economics and Strategy Faculty Group, at the LSE, where he has worked since 1991. He was previously Editor of the Financial Times, an executive in the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation, and Personnel Director in the overseas division of British Leyland Motor Corporation. He is the author of three books: The Rise and Fall of Great Companies: Courtaulds and the Reshaping of the Man-Made Fibres Industry, Industry in the USA, and From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry Since the Second World War. Published papers include Where are the Big Gorillas? High Technology Entrepreneurship in the UK and the Role of Public Policy, and he contributes to various management journals, including the Harvard Business Review.