Founding Director and Member of Executive Committee, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
Dr David Cleevely has been a member of the IET Communications Sector Panel since its creation in November 2002.The founder and former Chairman of telecoms consultancy Analysys. He is Chairman of Abcam, which he co-founded with Jonathan Milner in 1998, and in 2004 he co-founded the 3G pico base station company, 3WayNetworks, which was sold to Airvana in April 2007.
He joined the Board of Trutap (formerly Hotxt) - a mobile phone social networking provider in October 2005 and joined the Board of Ionscope in 2007 and became Chairman in May 2008. He is also the Chairman of CRFS, the spectrum monitoring company, which he co-founded in July 2007. He has been a prime mover behind Cambridge Network, co-founder of Cambridge Wireless and is a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board. He is a board member of Cambridge Angels.
After being sponsored to study Cybernetics at Reading by Post Office Telecommunications, he joined their Long Range Studies Division. A PhD at Cambridge was then followed by the Economist Intelligence Unit in London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IET and he has recently held an Industrial Fellowship at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He was recently appointed the Founding Director and Executive Committee Member of the Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.