Professor Bola Grace

Professor Bola Grace has extensive senior leadership experience in across several settings including industry, academia, and not-for-profit. Currently operating at board level, she has always succeeded in balancing her corporate and academic careers.
In the HealthTech / Pharma industry, she excelled in providing strategic and technical direction to highly skilled cross-functional teams on complex programmes; pioneering new systems and processes to bring greater value; delivering numerous innovative award-winning products.
Within academia, she lectures, supervises student projects, and publishes her work in leading journals. She values collaborative research into a variety of topics, leveraging the application of data and science into research and practice.
As a Women of the Future alumna and ‘Mentor of the Year’ awardee, she has dozens of testimonials from mentees she has impacted throughout her career. She is passionate about EDI and helping underrepresented groups in STEM. She holds a PhD from University College London and an Executive MBA from The University of Cambridge Judge Business School.