Leah Thompson

Biography

Leah is a senior officer in the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team (RS-KEIT) at the University of Oxford, and heads up Enterprising Oxford (https://eship.ox.ac.uk/) - an initiative to connect and promote entrepreneurship across Oxfordshire. She works with partners and key stakeholders across the University and region to facilitate collaboration and create opportunities for entrepreneurs.

Her latest project is IDEA (Increasing Diversity in Enterprising Activities), an initiative designed to tackle some of the key challenges and inequalities faced by groups who are currently vastly underrepresented in enterprise and industry across the world – the first focus is on women.

Her main areas of interest include place-based early stage startup and social enterprise development, tech for good, increasing diversity in entrepreneurship, and community building.

Leah has a degree from University of British Columbia in Canada, and has worked in many different sectors, including agriculture, consulting, B2B sales, and IT development.