Vicki Belt

Director of Engagement and Impact

Vicki is Director of Engagement and Impact for Research Centres at Warwick Business School. She is responsible for maximising the value of research to stakeholders at the ERC and also at the Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology. She has worked for over 15 years at the interface between social science research and policy, and before joining WBS she was Assistant Director for research at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES).

Stephen Roper

Director - ERC

Stephen Roper is Professor of Enterprise at Warwick Business School, Director of the Enterprise Research Centre – ERC (www.enterpriseresearch.ac.uk), and Co-Director of the Innovation and Research Caucus (https://ircaucus.ac.uk). He is an economist with degrees from the University of Durham, Oxford University, and LSE. Stephen joined Warwick in 2008. Prior to that, he was Professor of Business Innovation at Aston Business School, and before that, Assistant Director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre, Belfast.

Mark Hart

Deputy Director - ERC

Mark is Deputy Director of the ERC and Professor of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Policy, Warwick Business School. At the Centre Mark leads on business growth and productivity research to understand the dynamics of the private sector over time and the role of SMEs as well as contributing to the work on growth ambition and access to finance.