Steering Committee Member 

Harriet Fear MBE

Founder & Director, Harriet Fear Associates Ltd 

Harriet was a career Diplomat for over 20 years with the Foreign Office, serving in 17 countries in various roles including the commercial field and as Head of the national Life Sciences and Healthcare Trade Team for UK Trade & Investment (now Department for Business and Trade).

She has worked at the heart of the Cambridge business ecosystem since 2003 and was awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s List 2016. She was Chief Executive of One Nucleus from 2009 to 2017, which became the largest life science and healthcare membership body in Europe under her leadership.

Harriet served as the Prime Minister’s Business Ambassador for Life Sciences for five years, undertaking a range of high-profile duties. She currently advises a range of innovative organisations, is Chair of Cambridge Ahead and Cambridge Science Centre and is on the Governing Body of Anglia Ruskin University. She is Founder Director of the advisory company: Harriet Fear Associates Ltd (HFA Ltd).